Witness History Episodes Available now
The Execution of the Ceau艧escus
On December 25th 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceau艧escu were executed by firing squad.
Dusty Plays South Africa
The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964
Mad cow disease - CJD
In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans.
Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction
In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make WMD
The last men on the moon
The story of the last US space mission to the moon 40 years ago
Piltdown Man
In 1912, Britain's top palaeontologists were hoaxed by a "missing link" in human evolution
The M Room
How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war
Discovering Cleopatra's Palace
Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.
Marsha Hunt and the 1960s
In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.
Archive of Terror
How a huge cache of papers showed the true extent of torture across 1970s South America.
