Witness History Episodes Available now
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
The great American playwright revealed a lot about himself in BBC interviews
The Brompton Manley Ventilator
The development of a ventilation system that was a precursor to modern ventilators.
Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'
Abdul Sattar Edhi built one of the biggest welfare charities in the world
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
A woman who died in the US in 1940 was captured and enslaved in West Africa as a child
The Deepwater Horizon disaster
A deadly explosion on a drilling rig led to an environmental disaster in the US
A space crash
Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it.
When Skylab fell to Earth
The space station which was meant to break up and fall into the sea but instead hit land
The last men on the Moon
In 1972 the American space agency NASA carried out its final Moon mission
Nasa's female aquanauts
The women who led the way in America's space programme by spending two weeks underwater
The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
How a 72-year-old grandmother started online shopping before the internet
