Witness History Episodes Available now
People Power in the Philippines
In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos
The war in Transnistria
The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s
Egypt's bread riots
How huge unrest forced the Egyptian government to ditch a plan to increase bread prices
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010
China opens up to capitalism
How China's Communist rulers established the country's Special Economic Zones in May 1980
Soviet nuclear missile alert
The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
A first-hand account of taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s
The chemistry of cannabis
How an Israeli scientist discovered the crucial compounds in the widely-used drug
Roe v Wade
How a young lawyer from Texas got the US abortion laws changed in 1973
Surviving the Falkands War
British soldier Simon Weston was severely burned in an Argentine attack in 1982.
