Witness History Episodes Available now
'I just wanted to be white'
Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
In 1969 a theatrical revue called Oh Calcutta opened. It featured male and female nudity.
With the president on 9/11
How former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card broke news of 9/11 to President Bush
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.
The Watergate scandal
The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.
When JFK won the US presidency
The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Nasa's pioneering black women
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
Nasa's pioneering black women
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
The missing victims of apartheid
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule