Witness History Episodes Available now
From cakes to computers
How the Lyons catering company pioneered LEO, the first electronic office system
India's economic revolution
In the 1990s India began to open up its state-controlled economy
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
American scientist Dennis Klatt pioneered synthesised speech using his own voice.
Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter
How Wilfred Thesiger travelled in one of the world's harshest environments in the 1940s.
The man who got Delhi on track
India's capital city built a Metro to tackle its traffic and air pollution problems
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Lucia Cerna was the only witness to a murder that shocked El Salvador in November 1989
The 'Woman in Gold'
How one of Klimt's most famous paintings was returned to the family who'd owned it
The first Tasers
Why Los Angeles police began using a new weapon in the early 1980s.
The first Indian to win Miss World
Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966
The Love Canal disaster
How the Love Canal neigbourhood in the US came to symbolise the dangers of toxic waste
