Witness History Episodes Available now
Ursula Le Guin
The pioneer of feminist science fiction and creator of the Earthsea fantasy series
The IRA hunger strikes
Republican prisoner Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland on May 5 1981
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
How Amsterdam became the home of cannabis coffee shops.
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
The man behind the 9/11 attacks was killed by US special forces on 2 May 2011
The battle of Tora Bora
How US special forces lost bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
A survivor's account of the al-Qaeda attacks in East Africa in 1998 which killed hundreds
Meeting Osama bin Laden
One man's story of his journey to talk to the Al-Qaeda leader in 1996
The siege of Mecca
In 1979 Islamist militants took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam
The first space shuttle mission
How the space shuttle Columbia revolutionised manned space exploration
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
How the National Rifle Association turned into a US political lobbying colossus.
