Witness History Episodes Available now
The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Hear from two of the key players who brought to an end over 70 years of communism
Apollo 8
How the first mission around the Moon captured the world's imagination at Christmas 1968
Samuel Beckett
The great Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989
Turkey-Greece Island Dispute
How Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea.
Derek Jarman
The experimental film-maker made his first feature film 'Sebastiane' in 1976.
Death of an Anarchist
Giuseppe Pinelli was an Italian anarchist who died in police custody - but why?
The First Latin American 'Telenovela'
Brazil's Vida Alves starred in the first ever Latin American soap opera in December 1951.
Cot Death
The 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched in 1991 to prevent babies dying in their cots
The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'
Millions of Hindus were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk.
Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan
A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.
