Witness History Episodes Available now
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
An exhibition about the German army’s role in WW2 caused a scandal in 1995.
Hiroshima's trees of hope
Trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are still growing in the Japanese city
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
How fishermen and conservationists battled in the species-rich waters of the archipelago
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
The first Middle East mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
In 1957 a new strain of flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world
Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia
The transgender Indonesians who fought for their rights in the 1970s and 1980s
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
The great American playwright revealed a lot about himself in BBC interviews
The Brompton Manley Ventilator
The development of a ventilation system that was a precursor to modern ventilators.
Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'
Abdul Sattar Edhi built one of the biggest welfare charities in the world
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
A woman who died in the US in 1940 was captured and enslaved in West Africa as a child
