Witness History Episodes Available now
Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction
The American writer and scientist considered one of the greats of Science Fiction.
Free Health Care For All
In 1948 Britain launched the National Health Service, NHS
The Thalidomide Trial
Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalidomide went on trial in May 1968
The First Bicycle Sharing Scheme
In the mid 1960s a Dutch engineer came up with a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution.
Canadian Indigenous Protest
Plans to expand a golf course led to a stand-off between Mohawks and Canadian police.
The BBC at Caversham
For 75 years the BBC ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home.
Wine Shock: The Judgement of Paris
How California stunned the French wine world in the 1970s.
Shoah the Film
Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's epic nine-hour film on the Holocaust was released in spring 1985
The Rajneesh Poisoning Scandal
How the followers of an Indian guru tried to poison their opponents in Oregon, USA.
Lesbian Protest on BBC News
On 23 May 1988 a group of lesbian activists invaded a BBC TV news studio as it was on air
