Witness History Episodes Available now
An Azerbaijani View of the Demise of the Soviet Union
How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.
Great Fire of London
In 1666, a fire destroyed much of the city of London. Two diarists recorded what happened.
Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd
It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.
The Women of Greenham Common
How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK
The Scoop of the Century
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
Libya's Coup - 1969
The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.
Drop City
The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.
The Freedom Riders
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Cameroon's Lake Nyos Disaster
How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead
Child evacuees from the Spanish Civil War
How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.
