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Witness History Episodes

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    Winston Churchill's Election Defeat

    In July l945 Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was ousted in a general election

  2. The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History

    The contentious history of the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe - finally revealed.

  3. The Kitchen Debate

    When two Cold War leaders argued about living standards in their countries.

  4. South Korea's Summer Of Terror

    How thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were killed in South Korea in 1950.

  5. A Vet Remembers The Hyde Park Bombing

    Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982

  6. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

    The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968

  7. The Bombing of the King David Hotel

    The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.

  8. The Virgin Lands Campaign

    To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project

  9. The Killing of the Russian Tsar

    The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918

  10. Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck'

    How journalists located the wreck of a boat that capsized killing nearly 300 migrants

  11. The Spiegel Affair

    How a magazine article about West Germany's defence strategy led to a government crisis.

  12. Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

    How India secretly developed and exploded its first atomic device in 1974

  13. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    Published in 1958 the Nigerian writer's first novel revolutionised African fiction.

  14. Robert Mapplethorpe - Photographer

    The artist known for his nude portraits was at the height of his fame in 1988.

  15. Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'

    Ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on why she argued for Nato action in Kosovo

  16. Playgrounds Made of Junk

    Post-war Britain saw a rise in "adventure playgrounds" born out of bomb-sites

  17. The Toilet

    The controversial art installation which upset Russians but is now seen as a masterpiece

  18. Flight 655: When The US Shot Down An Airliner

    All 290 on board were killed when a US warship downed an Iranian passenger jet in 1988

  19. The Search For Deep Throat

    In July 2005, the most famous informant in American history Deep Throat revealed himself

  20. The President and the Gun Lobby

    Former President George Bush Senior's public row with the National Rifle Association.

  21. Whiskey On The Rocks

    The Cold War stand-off when a Soviet submarine was stranded on a Swedish rock.

  22. The SARS Emergency

    Early 2003 saw a medical emergency sweep across the world.

  23. Veronica Guerin - Dying for the Story

    The Irish journalist murdered for her work exposing drug barons in the 1990s

  24. The King of Lampedusa

    How 4,000 Italian troops surrendered to a young Jewish pilot from London, during WW2.

  25. How the World Woke Up to Global Warming

    James Hansen got US politicians to listen to his warnings about climate change in 1988.

  26. Demoted For Being Gay

    When the Israeli Army punished Colonel Uzi Even for being gay, he fought back.

  27. Wittenoom: An Australian Tragedy

    How a town built around an asbestos mine made its residents fatally ill.

  28. Bata the Shoemaker's Revolution

    Bata, a Czech company, pioneered assembly line shoemaking

  29. The Battered Child

    The American doctor who forced the medical profession to face up to child abuse.

  30. The Death of Kim Il-sung

    The founding father of communist North Korea died in July 1994.

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