Witness History Episodes Available now
The Deepwater Horizon disaster
A deadly explosion on a drilling rig led to an environmental disaster in the US
A space crash
Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it.
When Skylab fell to Earth
The space station which was meant to break up and fall into the sea but instead hit land
The last men on the Moon
In 1972 the American space agency NASA carried out its final Moon mission
Nasa's female aquanauts
The women who led the way in America's space programme by spending two weeks underwater
The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
How a 72-year-old grandmother started online shopping before the internet
The first iPhone
The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.
The Trojan Room coffee pot
The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot.
The Homebrew computer club
A group of Californian computer enthusiasts first began meeting to share ideas in 1975.
Being a Chinese Muslim
It has never been easy to practice a religious faith in communist China
