Witness History Episodes Available now
The Kray Gang
Maureen Flanagan on her relationship with London's gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
Fleeing Deportation to the USSR
After WW2, many Soviet citizens who had ended up outside the USSR, refused to go home.
The Nairobi Embassy Bombing
In 1998, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in attacks on US embassies in East Africa.
The Excavation of Masada
Nearly two thousand years ago, Masada in Israel was the site of a mass suicide.
The Twin Towers High-Wire Walk
Philippe Petit recalls his daring feat high above the New York streets in August 1974
American Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
In August 1981 over 11,000 air traffic controllers were fired after two days on strike.
Lebanon's Baalbek Festival
The Middle East's oldest arts festival, in Baalbek in Lebanon, started 60 years ago
The Reclusive JD Salinger
It's 65 years since JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye was published
Jacqueline Du Pre
Jacqueline Du Pre makes one of the most famous classical recordings of the 20th Century
The University of Texas Shooting
In August 1966 14 people were shot dead in America's first mass shooting at a university
