Witness History Episodes Available now
The paper that helped the homeless
The 'Street News' paper was sold by homeless people in New York at a profit to earn money
Francis Bacon in the archives
The painter Francis Bacon was known for his disturbing images and bohemian lifestyle
DES Daughters
A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world
General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?
Drugs in the Vietnam War
How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military
The Burma uprising of 1988
People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988
The Moscow State Circus
The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.
The first Eurostar from England to France
The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers
The anthem of the Arab Spring
How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011
Libya's Arab uprising
In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.
