Witness History Episodes Available now
I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis
A former member of the French resistance remembers the drama of August 1944
Finding El Salvador's missing children
The search for hundreds of children kidnapped by the Salvadoran army during the civil war
The first human Cyborg
In 1998 a transponder was implanted into the body of British scientist, Kevin Warwick.
Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read
The Dr Seuss books revolutionised reading in America in the 1950s.
Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'
How the CIA tracked down one of the world's most wanted men
The warnings before 9/11
Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent
The daily disposable contact lens
How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day
The division of Kashmir
The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
The Yangtze Incident
How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949
British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland
In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry
