Witness History Episodes Available now
The woman who got America talking about sex
Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s
Banksy’s first street art mural
It’s difficult to pinpoint the first major piece of Banksy street art, could this be it?
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Protestant workers went on strike in Northern Ireland in 1974
The dirtiest chess match in history
How the 1978 World Chess Championship was overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Why six men were locked inside a spacecraft on earth for 520 days
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
The story of Swedish social reformer, Alva Myrdal, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1982
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
The hunt for the Jamaican drug lord which left dozens of civilians dead
Paris is Burning
The groundbreaking film about drag queens and LGBTQ+ people in New York
The first Indian to win Miss World
Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Melina Mercouri, actress turned politician, requested the marbles be returned to Greece
