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Referendums and Teletubbies

Max Person presents a collection of this weeks Witness history episodes

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District Six and daredevils

The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in South Africa

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90 years of the 主播大秀 World Service

The 主播大秀 Caribbean Service and broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

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Food

Stories about the history of food, including the creation of ciabatta bread in Italy

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Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels

Russian rebels and the most bizarre football match of all time

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Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers

Plastics in oceans were first discovered over fifty years ago

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Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson

Horsemeat found in burgers and the aeroplane which safely landed on water in New York

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The death penalty and broadcasting bans

A prison guard and a hangman discuss capital punishment among other stories

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Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce

The first black music station in Europe and why Czechoslovakia split into two states

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Popes

Stories about the history of the papacy, including Benedict XVI's resignation

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'Hot Autumn' and Tutankhamun

Workers' strikes in Italy and 100 years since the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber

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Riots in Mauritius and the Queen 'jumping out of a helicopter'

Ethnic tensions in Mauritius and the Queen's 2012 Olympic wow moment

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Pink triangles and political assassinations

Gay men in Nazi concentration camps and the murder of Serbia's Prime Minister

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International Women's Day

A compilation of stories celebrating women who made history

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The Invasion of Iraq

Stories marking 20 years since the American led invasion of Iraq in March 2003

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Film and cinema around the world

The longest running Indian film and freeing Free Willy

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The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley

Vietnam's manicure godfather and how Bengaluru became India鈥檚 Silicon Valley

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Escaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba

One woman's journey to escape Eritrea and how Zumba was invented by accident

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Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

The unearthing of a mass grave in Ukraine, and the Boston bombing in 2013

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The history of dogs

Inventing the labradoodle, the first dog in space and the world's first therapy dog

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Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala

Trinidadian Althea McNish designs for Queen Elizabeth II and the Met Gala's popularity

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The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor

The removal of a symbolic royal stone and the former child King turned Prime Minister

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World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'

The Allies' campaign in North Africa and the last flight out of a Hong Kong airport

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Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week鈥檚 Witness History episodes

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Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown

A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru

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Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest

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Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash

Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada

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Amazing photographs and the people who took them

Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa

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Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon

The Somali pilot who defied orders to bomb civilians, and playing golf on the moon

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South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress

Seoul's department store collapse and the man who made Lady Gaga's meat dress

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