Witness History Episodes Available now
The Algerians who fought with France
When Algeria won independence in 1962 thousands of local French allies faced persecution
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
The Hotel Lutetia became a reception centre for French Holocaust survivors after WW2
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
The British Prime Minister started expressing doubts about the European Union in 1988
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The border between communist East Germany and the West opened on November 9th 1989
The Leipzig demonstrations
The Berlin Wall fell just a month after mass protests in the East German city of Leipzig
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Thousands of East Germans sought refuge in the West German embassy in Prague in 1989.
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
The body of Imre Nagy who had led the Hungarian Uprising was reburied in 1989
The legalisation of Solidarity
The Polish trade union organisation was banned by the communists until April 1989
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai fought to save forests and protect human rights
Britain's worst nuclear accident
A reactor caught fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in the north of England in 1957
