Witness History Episodes Available now
Star Trek
How the sci-fi classic Star Trek was born
Chile Coup
The playwright, Ariel Dorfman, recalls the coup in Chile in September 1973.
Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality
In 1957, a government committee shocked Britain by calling for homosexuality to be legal.
Child Evacuees
Children were evacuated from Britain's towns and cities at the beginning of World War Two.
A Baader Meinhof victim
In 1977 the Baader Meinhof gang kidnapped and killed a leading German businessman.
Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten, pillar of the British establishment, was killed by the IRA in 1979
Anniversary of the Beslan school siege of 2004
Six years on from the school siege in Beslan, one schoolgirl remembers
Oslo Talks
An insight into past Middle East Peace talks - a sense of humour makes a difference.
Titanic discovery
On 1 September 1985 scientists located the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor
Libya Coup 1969
In 1969, a group of Libyan army officers take power in an overnight coup
