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50 years of the Terracotta Army and the father of Pinyin
Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
The 75th anniversary of Nato, Britain's Mirpuri migration, and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Swedish History
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
The history of art heists
Recovering The Scream, the story of St Teresa of Avila and the Kampala terror attacks
Ebola outbreak and the Friendship Train returns
Thirty years since the first free elections in South Africa
Max Pearson presents a collection of this weeks Witness History Episodes
Paraguay’s ‘disappeared’ and the history of the Channel Tunnel
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there
India’s ambitious ID scheme and the iconic Princess Diana photo
A unique digital ID for one billion Indians and Princess Diana alone at the Taj Mahal
Independence in French Polynesia and the 'Queen of Cuba'
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia, and catching spy Ana Montes
The first Air Jordan and Imelda Marcos's 3,000 pairs of shoes
Max Pearson presents a collection footwear themed Witness History programmes.
South American revolutionaries and the first Aboriginal MP
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes
The weather report that delayed D-Day and panda-mania in Taiwan
Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria and the Irish shopworkers strike
Bungee jumping and the Benidorm boom
How holidays evolved from luxury cruises to exotic locations
The Sagrada FamÃlia and Hello Kitty
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
Subway Art and terror in Georgia
Brazil's ban on women in football and the first air fryer
Cyprus: Coups and clubbing
Max Pearson presents this week's Witness History interviews on the history of Cyprus
Moscow Metro and the Olympics
Ice Bucket Challenge and Bulgaria's dancing bears
American presidents
It's 50 years since Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign
Indonesian’s independence and the last Olympic art competition
Nazis in Egypt and Spain's La Tomatina
Nazis in Egypt and the origins of the largest food fight in the world
Space travel and Mary Poppins
Befriending Soviet cosmonauts and why the author of Mary Poppins hated the film
Marriage bars and a Moon mission
The law that banned married women from working and Apollo 13's attempted trip to the Moon
Ethiopian history
It’s 50 years since Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup
New Zealand’s first dinosaur and India’s plague outbreak
How New Zealand's first dinosaur was discovered and the pneumonic plague in India
South Africa’s Immorality Act and India's Mars Orbiter Mission
South Africa's ban on inter-racial relationships, the Estonia ferry disaster and Tupac
Latin America's longest plane hijacking and Kristallnacht
How one Latin American flight was hijacked for 60 hours and the infamous Kristallnacht
Technology and artificial intelligence
The stories behind the first electronic computers, chatbots, QR codes and humanoid robots
Flower revolutions
The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan in 2014 and the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003