Witness History Episodes Available now
Escape from the KGB
How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985
The Birth of Second Life
It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life
Freeze
In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.
The Hong Kong Handover
Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.
Women's Baseball in WWII
In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US
The Soviet Gulag
Hear one man's story of life in a Soviet labour camp during Stalin's rule.
Disco Demolition Night
How a disgruntled Chicago DJ hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot in 1979
Skylab Falls to Earth
The day when fragments of the US space station Skylab hit an Australian town in 1979
The Death of Thich Quang Duc
In June 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in central Saigon
Iran Student Protest
The Iranian student who became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests in 1999
