Witness History Episodes Available now
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised to support striking coal-miners.
Cuban Fighters in Angola
Thousands of Cuban troops fought with Angola's Marxist government forces in the civil war
The First Heart Transplant
On 3 December 1967, two brothers carried out the first heart transplant operation
Surviving Pearl Harbor
How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base
The Bari Raid 1943
How a devastating air raid on Bari during WW2 led to the deadly release of mustard gas
Nigeria's "War Against Indiscipline"
In 1984 General Buhari's military regime launched an unusual campaign to clean up Nigeria
Surviving Ravensbruck
The story of a survivor of Ravensbruck, the Nazis' concentration camp for women
Britain's Palestine Patrols
How the Royal Navy stopped Jewish refugee ships trying to reach Palestine in the 1940s.
Cuba's 'Special Period'
In the 1990s the Cuban economy came close to collapse after Soviet aid dried up
Racial Equality on the Dance Floor
A nightclub in the British city of Birmingham was forced to lift its racial restrictions
