Witness History Episodes Available now
Syria's secret library
The building of a secret library in the town of Darayya during the Syrian civil war
Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial
In 2008 the ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor faced a courtroom accused of war crimes
The Japanese invasion of Malaya
On 8 December 1941, thousands of Japanese troops landed on beaches near Kota Bharu
The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale
In 1898, Florence Nightingale invited the Aga Khan around to her London home for tea
The storming of Spain's parliament
Spanish MPs were taken hostage by armed Civil Guards in February 1981
The playboy spy who inspired James Bond
Dusko Popov was one of WWII's most successful double agents, inspiring the fictional 007.
'I taught the Dalai Lama'
In the late 1940s, an Austrian mountaineer becomes the young Dalai Lama's tutor
The photo which symbolised Argentina’s resistance
Adriana Lestido captured a mother and her daughter raising their arms in protest in 1982
Toxic shock syndrome and tampon safety
In the 1980s, deaths were linked to super-absorbent tampons
World War Two’s Shetland Bus
The Norwegian sailors who aided their country's resistance against the Nazis
