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Witness History Episodes

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    The Cross Border Horse Race

    A showdown on the American/Mexican border on September 14th 1958.

  2. Roselle - The 9/11 Guide Dog

    The inspiring story of how a Labrador led her blind master out of the World Trade Center.

  3. Australia's Rabbit Plague

    Rabbits infested huge swathes of the Australian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s.

  4. Shark Attack Survivor

    When Rodney Fox survived the jaws of a Great White Shark it inspired him to study them.

  5. The Transatlantic Locust Plague

    Millions of African locusts invaded the Caribbean having flown 5,000 kilometres non-stop.

  6. Sabra and Shatila - A Massacre in Lebanon

    A doctor working in Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon recalls the massacre there

  7. The German Schoolboy Arrested for Writing a Letter

    Karl-Heinz Borchardt was arrested at the age of 18 by East German secret police.

  8. The Hippydilly Squat

    A group of hippies occupied a sixty-room mansion in central London in September 1969.

  9. The Collapse of Northern Rock

    Panicked run on bank signals the start of the financial crisis in the UK

  10. Nok Terracottas: Nigeria's Ancient Treasure

    When West African tin miners unearthed evidence of a lost civilization

  11. France's Last Guillotine

    The last man to be executed by guillotine in France was a Tunisian, Hamida Djandoubi.

  12. BBC Proms: Audience Member Rescues Concert

    When the principal singer collapsed, a member of the audience took over his role.

  13. Biosphere 2: Building A New World

    Eight scientists sealed themselves inside a giant greenhouse for an ambitious experiment.

  14. The Fairy Photos

    How two girls' photos convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that fairies exist.

  15. Jamaica's Worst Train Accident

    A survivor recalls the Kendal train crash in September 1957 when more than 200 died.

  16. The Funeral of Princess Diana

    Diana's brother Earl Spencer remembers the emotional speech he made at her funeral.

  17. The Death of Princess Diana

    Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash whilst being chased by paparazzi

  18. The Birth of eBay

    The online auction site first went live in 1995.

  19. George Orwell and Animal Farm

    Animal Farm was an allegory about the dangers of Soviet communism and of Joseph Stalin.

  20. The Revolutionary Head Scan

    The summer of 1983 saw a major breakthrough in the treatment of facial deformities.

  21. Notting Hill Race Riot

    The racial disturbances in west London which shocked Britain in 1958.

  22. The Rostock-Lichtenhagen Riots

    A home for asylum seekers was set on fire in the German city of Rostock in August 1992

  23. Medicine In World War One

    Veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1

  24. The Discovery of Botox

    How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles

  25. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

    A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two

  26. Rabindranath Tagore

    The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.

  27. The Division of Cyprus

    In August 1974, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus for a second time cutting the island in two

  28. The Buenos Aires Herald

    The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's dictatorship.

  29. Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

    In the 1990s Nike got a bad name after being linked to sweatshops in Asia.

  30. Germany's Nudists

    How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.

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