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Witness History Episodes

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    The Unified Korean Table Tennis Team

    How ping pong brought together athletes from bitter rivals North and South Korea.

  2. The GI Who Chose China

    After the Korean war ended a few American prisoners chose to try life under communism.

  3. The Beginning of the Korean War

    North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.

  4. Korea Divided

    The Korean peninsula was split between North and South at the end of World War Two.

  5. The Execution of Adolf Eichmann

    Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed in the early hours of June 1st 1962

  6. The Death of General Sani Abacha

    Nigeria's military ruler died suddenly in June 1998.

  7. The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt

    In June 1968, students in Belgrade rebelled against Yugoslavia's 'market socialism'

  8. The Assassinaton Attempt that Sparked a Middle East War

    In 1982, a Palestinian gunman attacked the Israeli ambassador to London, Shlomo Argov

  9. Couch to 5K

    The birth of the running programme that got millions off their sofas and out jogging

  10. Lyuba the Baby Mammoth

    How a herdsman found the perfectly preserved body of a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth.

  11. Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction

    The American writer and scientist considered one of the greats of Science Fiction.

  12. Free Health Care For All

    In 1948 Britain launched the National Health Service, NHS

  13. The Thalidomide Trial

    Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalidomide went on trial in May 1968

  14. The First Bicycle Sharing Scheme

    In the mid 1960s a Dutch engineer came up with a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution.

  15. Canadian Indigenous Protest

    Plans to expand a golf course led to a stand-off between Mohawks and Canadian police.

  16. The BBC at Caversham

    For 75 years the BBC ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home.

  17. Wine Shock: The Judgement of Paris

    How California stunned the French wine world in the 1970s.

  18. Shoah the Film

    Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's epic nine-hour film on the Holocaust was released in spring 1985

  19. The Rajneesh Poisoning Scandal

    How the followers of an Indian guru tried to poison their opponents in Oregon, USA.

  20. Lesbian Protest on BBC News

    On 23 May 1988 a group of lesbian activists invaded a BBC TV news studio as it was on air

  21. Deaf University Protest

    How deaf students forced their American university to appoint a deaf president.

  22. Pakistan's Theatre Revolution

    The launch of Ajoka, the group which pioneered theatre for social change in Pakistan.

  23. China's Barefoot Doctors

    In 1968 Chairman Mao sent thousands of young people into rural China to work as doctors.

  24. President Suharto Resigns

    On May 21st 1998 the president of Indonesia resigned after 31 years in power.

  25. Defusing Nuclear Bombs: The Goldsboro 'Broken Arrow'

    How Lt. Jack ReVelle disarmed two thermonuclear bombs which crashed in North Carolina.

  26. Look Back in Anger

    The play Look Back in Anger changed British theatre when it was staged in 1956

  27. May 1968 Paris Riots

    A riot policeman's view of the violence which swept through France in 1968.

  28. The First Montessori Nursery

    In 1907 Italian doctor, Maria Montessori, radically changed the way young children learn.

  29. The Dambusters Raid

    The famous British raid on German dams during World War Two.

  30. The Walker Spy Ring

    In 1985 members of the US spy ring were arrested for selling Navy secrets to the USSR.

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