Witness History Episodes Available now
Mad Cow Disease and CJD
How a disease affecting cattle was transferred to the human population in Britain.
The Kasztner Affair
In March 1957, an Israeli political scandal ended in an assassination.
Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud
In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.
The Original Revolutionary Feminist
Alexandra Kollontai was the leading Marxist feminist in Communist Russia.
The Release of the Birmingham Six
In March 1991, six men were freed ending one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice
Tenerife Air Disaster
In March 1977 the worst accident in the history of civil aviation took place in Tenerife.
Spinsters' Rights
Millions of women were left single after the men they would have married died in WW1.
Poisoned in Kosovo
How Roma Gypsies, who fled ethnic violence in 1999, were settled in a camp on toxic land
Condemned as a Spy in the USSR
Flora Leipman, a British Jew, falsely condemned as a spy, was sent to a labour camp
Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer
In March 1921, Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London
