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How Ten Canoes made cinema history	Witness History	09:15
Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction	Witness History	10:50
Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze	Witness History	10:29
Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species	Witness History	10:41
When Dian Fossey was murdered	Witness History	10:39
Washoe: The chimp who learnt to sign	Witness History	10:34
Harry Harlow's monkey attachment studies	Witness History	10:23
The first monkeys to survive space travel	Witness History	10:52
The most successful Paralympian in history	Witness History	09:22
The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books	Witness History	10:41
How rats were trained to clear landmines	Witness History	10:34
The mirrors that lit up a dark Norwegian town	Witness History	09:39
Egypt’s President Sadat is assassinated	Witness History	10:43
The Peruvian pilots who secretly delivered fighter jets during the Falklands War	Witness History	10:52
The first Rubik's Cube world champion	Witness History	10:47
Boer War: Siege of Ladysmith	Witness History	10:47
The Dead Sea Scrolls	Witness History	10:47
The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan	Witness History	10:38
Sulawesi's cave art and the origins of storytelling	Witness History	10:49
The birth of Jodrell Bank	Witness History	10:15
Harold Riley: Painting Nelson Mandela	Witness History	10:10
Kinder Scout mass trespass	Witness History	10:51
The gathering that helped shape decolonisation	Witness History	10:31
‘Baby’ computer is invented	Witness History	10:19
The nightclub that changed Manchester	Witness History	10:38
The discovery of the San José shipwreck	Witness History	10:40
The birth of India's call centre industry	Witness History	11:03
Stardust: Ireland's deadly nightclub fire	Witness History	10:48
Connecting homes to the internet using cable TV	Witness History	10:05
Norway’s teacher resistance in World War Two	Witness History	10:57
Firefighter: Surviving the 9/11 North Tower collapse	Witness History	10:27
The weather report that changed the date of D-Day	Witness History	10:48
Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive	Witness History	10:40
The 'moving' statue of Ballinspittle	Witness History	10:41
Surviving the Long March	Witness History	09:45
Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss	Witness History	10:47
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Witness History	10:12
‘Genius’ sci-fi writer Octavia E Butler	Witness History	10:41
Making Turkish Star Wars	Witness History	10:20
How the Star Wars toys were created	Witness History	10:32

How Ten Canoes made cinema history

Witness History

09:15

Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction

Witness History

10:50

Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze

Witness History

10:29

Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species

Witness History

10:41