Witness History Episodes Available now
The Attempt to Kill Khaled Meshaal
In 1997 Israeli secret agents tried to assassinate a Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal.
Seven Years In Tibet
The Austrian mountaineer who lived in the forbidden land of Tibet in the 1940s and 50s.
Black Sabbath
On Friday 13 February 1970, heavy metal band Black Sabbath released their first album
Britain's Secret Code-Breakers
Witness talks to one of Britain's secret army of World War Two code-breakers
Pakistan's Women Only Police Station
In 1994 Pakistan opened the country's first all-female police station
The Arab Spring and Syria
The story of the first protests against the Assad regime in 2011
The Last of the Red Hot Mamas
The larger than life vaudeville star - Sophie Tucker - died on February 9th 1966.
Prozac
In the spring of 1988 a new kind of anti-depressant went on the market.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
In 1938, the first animated feature film was released, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The ‘Abscam’ Corruption Investigation
The FBI sting operation that ensnared corrupt politicians using a fictitious Arab sheikh.
