Witness History Episodes Available now
The world's first woman premier
In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister
Captured by Somali pirates
Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008
The 'good enough' mother
Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.
When Pluto lost its planet status
An international committee of astronomers agreed Pluto wasn't really a planet in 2006
World War One in Africa
Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s
The Guerrilla Girls
The women who launched an anonymous poster campaign against sexism and racism in art.
The church that rose from the rubble
Reconstructing Dresden's historic baroque church.
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
How a meeting in Manchester shaped the post-war struggle against colonialism
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The Israeli PM was shot by an extremist opposed to the peace process on November 4th 1995
