Witness History Episodes Available now
The World Festival of Black Arts
A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966
The museum of banned Russian art
How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum
The last days of Frida Kahlo
The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life
Meeting Picasso
A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s
Chasing the Marcos millions
The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president
Shanghai at War
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
The first McDonald's in Moscow
The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry
People Power in the Philippines
In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos
The war in Transnistria
The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s
