Witness History Episodes Available now
The Birth of the Water Baby
In 1977 a state hospital near Paris began quietly changing the way women gave birth.
Surviving the "Auschwitz of the Balkans"
Croatian fascists killed Serbs, Jews and Roma people in Jasenovac camp during WW2.
The Death of Evita
Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952.
Pioneer North Sea Divers
In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom
Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China
The Chinese civil war remembered by the Nationalist leader's former chief aide.
When homosexuality was a crime
Hear one man's story of living in fear before 1967 when Britain legalised homosexuality
Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme
In the 1960s, many Soviet families moved to a flat of their own for the first time.
The Welsh Language Act
In July 1967 there was a breakthrough for the Welsh language.
US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam
How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s
The Bonus Army
In summer 1932, thousands of American First World War veterans marched on Washington