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Witness History Episodes

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    Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot

    Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.

  2. Digging up the Truth

    Mercedes Doretti has spent her life uncovering mass graves around the world.

  3. The Attica Prison Riot

    One man's memories of a very public siege in a high security jail in the USA.

  4. Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

    In December 1976 gunmen tried to kill the legendary reggae singer at his home in Jamaica.

  5. The Capture of Abimael Guzman

    Tracking down Peru's public enemy number one, leader of the Maoist Shining Path rebels.

  6. Colombia's 'Lost City'

    In 1976, archaeologists found the ruins of a huge indigenous settlement hidden in forest

  7. The US School Bible Controversy

    How a schoolboy challenged the practice of daily Bible reading in US schools - and won.

  8. India's City of the Future: Chandigarh

    World famous architect Le Corbusier built a city to revive Indian pride after Partition.

  9. The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya

    The dissident poet spent four years in Soviet prisons and labour camps.

  10. Car Safety and Ralph Nader

    In the early 1960s there were virtually no laws covering car safety in the USA.

  11. A Black GI in China

    How did a black American soldier end up living a privileged life in communist China?

  12. The Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters

    3 sisters in the Dominican Republic were beaten to death on the orders of the dictator

  13. The Bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow

    How the Soviets hid hi-tech bugs deep inside the walls of the new US embassy in Moscow.

  14. The 1948 French Miners' Strike

    How coal miners in France went from post-war heroes to pariahs

  15. The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka

    In 1965 a Moroccan disappeared from the streets of Paris. His body has never been found.

  16. The Silk Letters Movement

    In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered plans to overthrow British rule

  17. The Concordski Crash

    A fateful day in the race to develop the first supersonic passenger plane.

  18. Saving Orphaned African Elephants

    How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants

  19. Marcel Duchamp in New York

    Remembering a wartime surrealist exhibition put on by Marcel Duchamp.

  20. Plane spotters arrested in Greece

    In Nov 2001 a group of British tourists was arrested in Greece and charged with spying.

  21. The Stockholm Syndrome

    One of the original Stockholm hostages talks about her kidnap ordeal.

  22. The Musical Cabaret

    Director Hal Prince remembers the hit musical opening on Broadway in November 1966

  23. Smuggling Endangered Birds

    In Nov 1996 leading ornithologist Tony Silva was convicted of smuggling endangered birds.

  24. The Madagascar Palace Fire

    In 1995 one of Madagascar's most historic sites was destroyed by fire

  25. East Timor Massacre

    In November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in Dili.

  26. The Burning of the Satanic Verses

    The publication of Salman Rushdie's book outraged many Muslims around the world

  27. The James Bond Theme Tune

    In 1962 Monty Norman wrote the music for the first James Bond film, Dr No.

  28. Kurdish Singer Ahmet Kaya

    The widow of the famous folk singer recalls the night that changed her husband's life.

  29. Rolling Stone Magazine

    Writer and musician Michael Lydon recalls the birth of an iconic magazine.

  30. The First Loebner Prize

    On 8 November 1991, a competition which judged artificial intelligence was held.

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