Witness History Episodes Available now
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida
The fastest vaccine ever developed
How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine
The first safe house for Afghan women
Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back
The Million Man March
On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC
The man who tried to kill Hitler
On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005
How Club Med changed holidays
Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950
