Witness History Episodes Available now
Mao's Cultural Revolution
We hear from one man who took part in China's brutal Cultural Revolution.
My memories of Chairman Mao
China's legendary Communist leader in the words of an American who knew him well
The birth of the People's Republic of China
On 1 October 1949 Chairman Mao declared China a communist state
The death of a matador
The fatal goring of the legendary bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez - "Paquirri".
The Large Hadron Collider
In September 2008, the world's biggest science experiment was switched on.
Fighting the Islamic State group online
How one historian living in Mosul took aim at the Islamic State group on the internet.
Being black in Nazi Germany
Theodor Wonja Michael was a child when Hitler came to power in Germany.
The Sound of Music on Broadway
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was performed on stage before it became a movie.
Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy
The distinguished art historian was exposed as a former Soviet spy in the autumn of 1979.
CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia
The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950
