Witness History Episodes Available now
Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment
One man's stand against the psychiatric abuse of political dissidents in the Soviet Union
Strikers in saris
How South Asian women workers won the support of the British trade unionist movement
The petrol that was poisoning children
The EU finally banned lead in petrol in 2000 - decades after the US, Canada and Japan.
Womenomics in Japan
Japan faces a demographic time-bomb. Could the answer be Womenomics?
Freeing American prisoners from Iran
The diplomacy behind the release of three US citizens who unknowingly hiked into Iran.
The last smallpox outbreak
Thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic in India in 1974.
The rebel nuns who left their convent behind
A group of Californian nuns left their convent and set up their own community in 1970
The first mobile phone call
The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call
An Antarctic mystery
Human remains were found on a remote island in Antarctica in 1985 but whose were they?
Saving Antarctica
A 1980s campaign to preserve Antarctica for science.
