Witness History Episodes Available now
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968
The Bombing of the King David Hotel
The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.
The Virgin Lands Campaign
To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918
Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck'
How journalists located the wreck of a boat that capsized killing nearly 300 migrants
The Spiegel Affair
How a magazine article about West Germany's defence strategy led to a government crisis.
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
How India secretly developed and exploded its first atomic device in 1974
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Published in 1958 the Nigerian writer's first novel revolutionised African fiction.
Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'
Ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on why she argued for Nato action in Kosovo
Playgrounds Made of Junk
Post-war Britain saw a rise in "adventure playgrounds" born out of bomb-sites
