Witness History Episodes Available now
The Arctic African
Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.
Rupert Brooke
The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions
Ellen comes out
Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.
The al-Yamamah arms deals
A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s
Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave
The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world
South Africa's first free elections
After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.
Britain's first vegans
The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'
Nato bombs Serbian TV
A survivor from the April 1999 bombing in Belgrade that killed 16 people.
The Columbine massacre
13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the school shooting on April 20th 1999
How organic farming started
Worries about the industrialisation of farming post-WW2 led some farmers to go organic.
