Witness History Episodes Available now
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
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara
Kosovo鈥檚 house schools
In the 1990s a generation of Albanians got their education crammed into private homes
