Witness History Episodes Available now
The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka
In 1965 French agents helped kidnap and disappear the Moroccan dissident in Paris
The Big Bang
In 1986 London's Stock Exchange underwent one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.
The Hungarian Uprising
In October 1956 Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule.
Shell Shock
Veterans talk about their experience of 'shell shock' in recordings from the BBC archive
Marvel Comics and 'The Fantastic Four'
In 1961 a new generation of comic-book super heroes was launched in the US
The Aberfan Disaster
On 21st October 1966, tragedy struck a village in Wales when a landslide crushed a school
Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain
The story of the great French conceptualist artist Marcel Duchamp and his art
The Mau Mau Rebellion
During the 1950s in Kenya, rebels known as the Mau Mau were fighting against British rule
Father Charles Coughlin - America's First Radio Priest
How a controversial Catholic priest had millions of listeners in the 1930s.
Bugging the US Embassy in Moscow
The row over hi-tech spying in America's new diplomatic building in the USSR
