Witness History Episodes Available now
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.
Three Strikes Law
One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life
Rodney King and the LA riots
People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA
The 16th Street church bombing
Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963
Brown v the Board of Education
A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.
The portable defibrillator
How Northern Irish doctor Frank Pantridge revolutionised heart-attack treatment.
The origin of the WHO
How the cold war helped shape the creation of the WHO and what role China played.
How Christo wrapped the Reichstag
The artist who delighted post-Cold War Berlin by wrapping its greatest monument
The Zanzibar Revolution
Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.
