Witness History Episodes Available now
The Raymond Davis Incident
How a shooting in the streets of Lahore brought US-Pakistani relations to the brink
The return of Blue Lake
How an ancient Native American sacred lake was finally returned to the Taos Pueblo people
The Eichmann trial
In April 1961 the Nazi official who ran holocaust death camps was put on trial in Israel
China's 'Kingdom of women'
An ancient matrilineal society which doesn't believe in marriage and where the women rule
The vultures saved from extinction
South Asian vultures started dying in huge numbers in the 1990s but no one knew why.
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Hear from a Cuban who fought against the US-backed exiles that invaded Cuba in April 1961
How a worm helped explain human development
The nematode worm c. elegans has enabled all sorts of discoveries about human biology
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman judge at America's top court
Discovering the Jet Stream
Air raids and balloon bombs - the strange story behind the discovery of the Jet Stream
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
How the people of Russia's second city dropped the great communist leader's name
