Witness History Episodes Available now
The rebel nuns who left their convent behind
A group of Californian nuns left their convent and set up their own community in 1970
The first mobile phone call
The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call
An Antarctic mystery
Human remains were found on a remote island in Antarctica in 1985 but whose were they?
Saving Antarctica
A 1980s campaign to preserve Antarctica for science.
Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'
Building the largest gun in the world for Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria
"Battle Bus" was a sculpture in memory of Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro Wiwa
How meditation changes your brain
In 2002, a landmark study on Buddhist monks showed that meditation can alter the brain.
The Pale Blue Dot
How the Voyager space probe captured a famous image of Earth as it left the Solar System.
The Rules: A dating handbook
The best-selling dating handbook was published on Valentine's Day 1995
The best-seller Fear of Flying
Erica Jong's best-selling book about sex, creativity and love, published in 1973
