Witness History Episodes Available now
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work
The 'strike' in space
How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control
Buddhists and death row
How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace
The oldest song in the world
Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
The modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India
