Witness History Episodes Available now
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag
How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin
The first anti-psychotic drug
How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness
The end of the war in Kosovo
Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999
The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality
A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.
Broadcasting D-Day
How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
The Little Prince
The mystery surrounding the death of the author of the world famous children's tale
D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
Vikings in York
Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s
Six Degrees - the first online social network
Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.
Behind the scenes on Sesame Street
The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made
