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In October 1956, students and workers took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule in Hungary. The demonstrations turned violent and for a while, the revolutionaries were in control, before being brutally repressed. In 2010, Ed Butler spoke to one of the rebels, Péter Pallai. Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that t… Play episode

Keith Haring’s Berlin Wall mural
Malta’s divorce referendum
How Ten Canoes made cinema history
Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction
Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze
Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species
When Dian Fossey was murdered
Washoe: The chimp who learnt to sign
Harry Harlow's monkey attachment studies
The first monkeys to survive space travel
The most successful Paralympian in history
The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books
How rats were trained to clear landmines
The mirrors that lit up a dark Norwegian town
Egypt’s President Sadat is assassinated
The Peruvian pilots who secretly delivered fighter jets during the Falklan…
The first Rubik's Cube world champion
Boer War: Siege of Ladysmith
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan
Sulawesi's cave art and the origins of storytelling
The birth of Jodrell Bank
Harold Riley: Painting Nelson Mandela
Kinder Scout mass trespass
The gathering that helped shape decolonisation
‘Baby’ computer is invented
The nightclub that changed Manchester
The discovery of the San José shipwreck
The birth of India's call centre industry
Stardust: Ireland's deadly nightclub fire
Connecting homes to the internet using cable TV
Norway’s teacher resistance in World War Two
Firefighter: Surviving the 9/11 North Tower collapse
The weather report that changed the date of D-Day
Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive
The 'moving' statue of Ballinspittle
Surviving the Long March
Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
‘Genius’ sci-fi writer Octavia E Butler
Making Turkish Star Wars
How the Star Wars toys were created
The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73
Hurricane Luis hits Antigua
Peace People: The Northern Ireland campaign group born from tragedy
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The Hungarian Revolution