Witness History Episodes Available now
South Africa's first free elections
After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.
Britain's first vegans
The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'
Nato bombs Serbian TV
A survivor from the April 1999 bombing in Belgrade that killed 16 people.
The Columbine massacre
13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the school shooting on April 20th 1999
How organic farming started
Worries about the industrialisation of farming post-WW2 led some farmers to go organic.
Auto-destructive art
Gustav Metzger and the birth of the radical new art form in the 1960s
The first play on Broadway written by a black woman
'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry had an almost exclusively black cast too.
Dennis Tito - the first space tourist
In April 2001 an American multi-millionaire paid Russia to send him into space
Chinese restaurant syndrome
In the 1960's American diners began to worry that Chinese food was making them ill.
The rise of Hindu nationalism
The consolidation of the BJP as one of the major powers in Indian politics.
