Witness History Episodes Available now
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in 1976
Escaping from East Berlin
East Germans used all sorts of methods to escape from communism across the Berlin Wall
The building of the Berlin Wall
In August 1961, East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe
Gay activism in 1990s India
Pawan Dhall helped form the Counsel Club, one of India's first gay support groups
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
When the Taliban fell in 2001 Afghans could listen to music and news again
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl in the Biafran War in 1967.
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
How a grassroots environmental movement won its fight against deforestation in India
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
The first African American woman to be hired as a reporter by the Washington Post
The Tsunami and Fukushima
How an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and triggered a nuclear emergency in 2011
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Why did it take so long for the oral contraceptive pill to be legalised in Japan?
