Witness History Episodes Available now
The Aberfan Disaster
On 21st October 1966, tragedy struck a village in Wales when a landslide crushed a school
Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain
The story of the great French conceptualist artist Marcel Duchamp and his art
The Mau Mau Rebellion
During the 1950s in Kenya, rebels known as the Mau Mau were fighting against British rule
Father Charles Coughlin - America's First Radio Priest
How a controversial Catholic priest had millions of listeners in the 1930s.
Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow
The row over hi-tech spying in America's new diplomatic building in the USSR
The Hoover Free Flights Promotion
How an advertising campaign for vacuum cleaners went badly wrong.
The Last Day of Lebanon's Civil War
In October 1990, Syrian jets ousted their main opponent in Lebanon ending the civil war
Chile Votes Against Pinochet
In 1988 Chileans voted to end the brutal 15-year military rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic
In 1918, more than fifty million people died in a global flu pandemic.
Irina Ratushinskaya
The dissident poet was released from a labour camp on the eve of a US-Soviet summit
