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Witness History Episodes

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    The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists

    A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.

  2. Leonardo's Lost Notebooks

    In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain

  3. Women's Rights In Iran

    Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.

  4. Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'

    The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry

  5. Sartre and de Beauvoir

    The love affair between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lasted for 50 years.

  6. The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858

    In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games

  7. Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two

    Russian mountaineers disguised monuments in the city to protect them from enemy fire.

  8. Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb

    Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC

  9. The Killing of Vincent Chin

    The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.

  10. The Munich Air Disaster

    The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.

  11. The Hanafi Hostage Siege

    How American Muslim gunmen took more than 100 people hostage in the US capital in 1977.

  12. Women in Britain get the right to vote

    On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time

  13. The Birth of the Water Baby

    French obstetrician Dr Michel Odent encouraged women to use water to ease childbirth.

  14. Bringing Nazi Leader Klaus Barbie To Justice

    The extradition to France of the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon'

  15. China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

    The Chinese government banned the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, in 1999.

  16. Banning The Belt

    How two Scottish mothers forced the UK government to end corporal punishment in schools

  17. Lahore Cricket Attack

    Islamist militants attacked a convoy of international cricketers in Pakistan in 2009.

  18. The Roots of the Rohingya Crisis

    The complex history behind the world's fastest growing refugee crisis.

  19. Hungary's Jewish Underground

    During WW2 thousands of fake documents helped save Jews from the Nazis in Hungary.

  20. Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive

    How a surprise attack became a turning point in the Vietnam war

  21. No Sex in the USSR

    How a satellite TV link-up between American and Soviet women led to misunderstanding.

  22. The Bloody Sunday Shootings

    Tony Doherty recalls the murder of his father by British troops in Northern Ireland

  23. US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam

    How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s.

  24. The "Godfather of Gospel Music"

    Thomas A Dorsey is credited with developing Gospel music into a global phenomenon.

  25. The Invention of the Lego Brick

    How one of the world's most popular toys was invented in a small Danish town in 1958

  26. The Vege-Burger

    How one of the mainstays of vegetarian cuisine was launched in 1982

  27. Salvador Dali

    The life and times of the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali

  28. The Capture of the USS Pueblo

    A US spy ship was caught by North Korean forces in the Sea of Japan on 23 January 1968.

  29. Francis Bacon's Studio

    How an influential painter's studio was moved in its entirety from London to Ireland.

  30. My 10-Year Battle to Adopt in Guatemala

    How Guatemala's changes in law scuppered Ruth Sheehan's attempt to adopt a baby boy

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