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Witness History Episodes

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    The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs

    The fossil find in 1923 in Mongolia helped to prove that dinosaurs hatched their young.

  2. The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity

    In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.

  3. The Antarctic Whale Hunters

    Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.

  4. The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands

    When Iraq's marshes became a hiding place for rebels, Saddam Hussein destroyed them.

  5. The USSR Opens Up to the West

    Four years after Stalin's death, Moscow threw a festival for 30,000 foreign students.

  6. The Last Days of Yasser Arafat

    The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004

  7. The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK

    What did Lee Harvey Oswald do for two years in the Soviet city of Minsk?

  8. The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers

    How hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were hired to work legally in US farms.

  9. The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

    Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.

  10. Britain's Little Blue Disability Car

    For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars

  11. Japanese Murders in Brazil

    Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.

  12. The Shah in Exile

    Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah

  13. Jewish in Imperial Russia

    A young woman's rare account of Jewish life in imperial Russia.

  14. How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear

    Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva remembers the day his father was taken by the military.

  15. Armistice Day 1918

    On November 11th 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns of World War One finally fell silent

  16. WW1: Revolution in Germany

    Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918

  17. Women Nurses during World War One

    Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.

  18. African Troops during World War One

    Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1

  19. The Battle of Passchendaele

    It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1

  20. A Kristallnacht story

    Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938

  21. Why I Slapped the German Chancellor

    In November 1968 a young activist hit Germany's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past

  22. Princess Margaret And The War Hero

    How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.

  23. Life With America's Black Panthers

    Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.

  24. The KGB's Whistleblower

    KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992

  25. The Day Nigeria Struck Oil

    An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history

  26. When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

    Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003

  27. Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

    The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's

  28. The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet

    The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998

  29. Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  30. When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola

    When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious

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