Witness History Episodes Available now
The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
A Swedish warship, Vasa, sank in the 17th century but was raised from the seabed in 1961
Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
A former British governor of Punjab was shot in 1940 as revenge for killings in Amritsar
The trembling giant
Could the biggest living organism on earth be a colony of quaking aspen trees?
Britain's first woman judge
Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
In 1985 activists made a giant quilt to commemorate those killed by AIDS in the USA.
The Cheonan sinking
On March 26th 2010 a South Korean naval ship sank after an explosion - 48 sailors died
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
In March 2015 Saudi Arabia and its allies began an intense aerial bombardment of Yemen
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
Over 50 million people are thought to have died from influenza around the world in 1918
Hong Kong's abandoned children
The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted.
The Chinese cure for malaria
How scientists in the 1970s discovered an anti-malarial drug using a traditional remedy.
