Witness History Episodes Available now
The women who reclaimed the night
How women in England took to the streets to protest against a serial killer
Black Jesus
In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
How two Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while crossing the lawless Darien Gap
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow.
When the prisoners ran the prison
Prisoners at Walpole maximum security prison were in charge for three months in 1973
Anorexia nervosa
The death of the singer, Karen Carpenter, showed how devastating the illness could be.
The fight against slavery in Mauritania
Brahim Bilal Ramdhane was born into slavery in the 1960s, now he fights against it.
South Africa takes on big pharma
The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.
The woman who got America talking about sex
Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s
Banksy’s first street art mural
It’s difficult to pinpoint the first major piece of Banksy street art, could this be it?
