Witness History Episodes Available now
The Pergau Dam Affair
In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.
Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon
How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.
The 1973 Oil Crisis
In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.
Fighting Mount Etna
How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint
Austria at War
The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation
The Nazi Black Book
During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden
Reform of the House of Lords
How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament
Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing
How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".
