Witness History Episodes Available now
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.
The Watergate scandal
The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.
When JFK won the US presidency
The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Nasa's pioneering black women
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
Nasa's pioneering black women
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
The missing victims of apartheid
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule
The Cutter Incident
How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.
