Witness History Episodes Available now
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
A teacher decided to separate pupils according to eye colour to teach them about racism.
The friendship train
The passenger train service between India and Bangladesh was resumed after 43 years.
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking in Bosnia in the late 90s
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Chairman Mao banned all classical music in 1966, but some musicians defied the order.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.
Three Strikes Law
One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life
Rodney King and the LA riots
People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA
The 16th Street church bombing
Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963
Brown v the Board of Education
A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.
