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Witness History Episodes

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    The Good Friday Agreement

    The deal which brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence.

  2. Mapping the Ocean's Secrets

    Marie Tharp's discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge proved the theory of plate tectonics

  3. The 'Oasis of Peace'

    The story of Wahat al-Salam, Neve Shalom where Jews and Arabs live side by side in peace.

  4. Sarajevo: Singing for Peace

    How a multi-faith choir brought together survivors of the Bosnian civil war.

  5. First Women on the London Stock Exchange

    The women who broke tradition shocking London's top-hatted stockbrokers.

  6. Who Killed Luis Colosio?

    The murder of a presidential candidate that shocked Mexico.

  7. Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud

    In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.

  8. A Brief History of Time

    Physicist Stephen Hawking's best-seller, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988

  9. Elvis in the US Army

    How the 'King' of Rock'n'Roll became a GI in 1958 and served during the Cold War

  10. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill

    Did a nerve agent kill 6,000 sheep close to a US military testing site in 1968?

  11. Latvia's Controversial Waffen-SS Fighters

    In 1998 Latvian Waffen-SS veterans marched to remember a battle against the Soviets.

  12. Tancredo Neves - Doomed Hero of Brazilian Democracy

    How the politician who led Brazil to democracy died before taking office as president.

  13. The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America

    How the BBC began Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts to fight the Nazis in the Americas

  14. Surviving The My Lai Massacre

    One of the worse US military atrocities took place during the Vietnam war.

  15. The Moscow Show Trials

    An eyewitness account of Stalin's purge of top Soviet leaders during the Great Terror.

  16. Changing the Alphabet in Azerbaijan

    After independence Azerbaijan changed from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin letters.

  17. Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer

    The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened in London in 1921 by Dr Marie Stopes

  18. The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt

    The life and thought of the leading 20th-century political thinker, Hannah Arendt

  19. Deaf Rights Protest

    Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.

  20. Wonder Woman

    The first major female superhero was created by psychologist William Marston in 1941

  21. World War One: Russia at War

    How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution

  22. China's Barefoot Doctors

    How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.

  23. M*A*S*H

    The last episode of the iconic TV series broadcasts to record audiences across the US.

  24. The Killing of Olof Palme

    The Swedish Prime Minister was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28th 1986.

  25. The Angel of the North

    The huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.

  26. The Last Smallpox Outbreak

    In India in 1974 thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic

  27. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century was published in February 1996.

  28. The Boy in the Bubble

    David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble

  29. Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace

    How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute

  30. Ghana Must Go

    Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983

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