Witness History Episodes Available now
The Discovery of Botox
How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
Rabindranath Tagore
The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.
The Division of Cyprus
In August 1974, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus for a second time cutting the island in two
The Buenos Aires Herald
The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's dictatorship.
Nike and the Sweatshop Problem
In the 1990s Nike got a bad name after being linked to sweatshops in Asia.
Germany's Nudists
How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.
Reagan's Bombing Joke
"We begin bombing in five minutes" said the US President in 1984. But he was only joking
Florence Nightingale
The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.
The Calcutta Killings of 1946
Exactly a year before Indian independence there were deadly riots in the city of Calcutta
