Witness History Episodes Available now
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall has died aged 91. This is a programme from our archive
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Kim Gordon and his parents were locked up for two years in a hotel in China in the 1960s
The race for the jet engine
Inspiration, rejection and war - a personal account of the invention of the jet engine
The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
In July 1985 the Greenpeace boat was bombed in New Zealand by French secret agents
The first World Romani Congress
Roma people from all around Europe met up in England in 1971
The famine in North Korea
After the fall of the Soviet Union communist North Korea suffered a famine in the 1990s
Britain's wartime gold
When Britain went to war with Germany in 1939 it had to find somewhere to keep its wealth
Cuba's blindness epidemic
Up to 50,000 Cubans were inexplicably struck down with sight loss in the early 1990s
China's trailblazing foreign students
We hear from one of the first students to study overseas after the Cultural Revolution
The Chinese Communist Party
A small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921
