Witness History Episodes Available now
The Hippie Trail
In the 1960s and 70s, thousands of westerners travelled to India by overland bus.
The First Budget Flights Across the Atlantic
How a small Icelandic company broke the mould in air travel in the 1950s.
Italy's Shame: The Massacre in Ethiopia
In 1937 Italian forces occupying Addis Ababa murdered thousands of Ethiopian civilians
The Killing of Vincent Chin
The movement sparked by the brutal murder of a Chinese-American by 2 white men.
Persecution of Christians In the Korean War
In 1950, tens of thousands of Christians were persecuted during the Korean War.
Body Worlds Exhibition
In 1995 Tokyo University staged the first exhibition to feature plastinated human corpses
Italy's 'State-within-a-State'
In 1982 Italian banker Roberto Calvi was found dead in London in mysterious circumstances
The Sinking of the Lancastria
We hear from one of the last survivors of a forgotten World War Two disaster
The Beatles and All You Need is Love
How the Beatles stole the show on the world's first live TV broadcast in June 1967
The Woman Who Stopped Equal Rights in America
In June 1982 Phyllis Schlafly defeated a law to guarantee gender equality in the US.
