Witness History Episodes Available now
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
The Israeli politician visited the compound containing one of Islam's holiest sites
China's Democracy Wall
How a brick wall in Beijing became a beacon for those calling for change
The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'
The trial of a South African doctor accused of multiple murders under Apartheid.
The Jewish exodus from Iraq
How two thousand Jews fled persecution in the summer of 1971, helped by Iraqi Kurds
Legalising contraception in Ireland
Contraception wasn't easily accessible in traditionally Roman Catholic Ireland until 1985
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
In 1955 Christopher Mayhew MP took the hallucinogenic drug mescaline for a TV experiment
Surviving Guantanamo
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained by the USA without charge for 15 years
The Great Wine Fraud
The story of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan and the French winemaker who exposed him
Ursula Le Guin
The pioneer of feminist science fiction and creator of the Earthsea fantasy series
The IRA hunger strikes
Republican prisoner Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland on May 5 1981
