Witness History Episodes Available now
The McCarthy Era
In spring 1950, an American academic was wrongly named as the main Soviet agent in the US
The Funeral of Charles Darwin
The great English naturalist Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in April 1882
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine
Yves Saint Laurent and Morocco
In 1966 the great French fashion designer went to Morocco for the first time
Shakespeare's Jubilee
How actor David Garrick organised the first national celebration of Shakespeare in 1769
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
An industrial disaster in New York in 1911 led to huge social reforms.
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
A member of Cuba's communist militia recalls battling US-backed invaders in April 1961
The Harrier in the Falklands War
A Harrier pilot remembers the air battle over the Falklands in 1982
Haile Selassie In Jamaica
On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
The Spanish Republic
How writers and artists campaigned to bring culture to every corner of 1930s Spain
