Witness History Episodes Available now
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
In 1993, Burundi’s first democratically elected President was murdered
Columbia space shuttle disaster
The US space shuttle Columbia broke up on its way back to Earth on 1 February 2003
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Two former Prime Ministers describe how they split Czechoslovakia in two in 1993
Palestine Post bombing
Mordechai Chertoff was the editor on the Palestine Post when it was bombed in 1948
Invention of the MP3
It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Using archive recordings, Alex Last tells the story of Britain's most famous hangman
Smolensk air disaster
In 2010, a plane carrying the Polish president, crashed and killed everyone on board
Japanese death row guard
Yoshikuni Noguchi was a prison guard in Japan and witnessed the hanging of a prisoner
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Paul McLoone recalls the time he was the voice of Martin McGuinness
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
In 2009 a vaccine designed to stop swine flu appeared to trigger a sleep disorder
