Witness History Episodes Available now
Child Prisoners of the Japanese
The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.
The Inuit Children Experiment
Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark
The Man Who Published Harry Potter
In 1996 struggling author JK Rowling finds a publisher at last for wizard Harry Potter.
Devil's Island
A convict's experience of the notorious French penal colony in South America.
The World's Most Valuable T-Rex
Peter Larson tells us how his team discovered the most complete T-Rex fossil in the world
The Great Iraqi Defection
In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan.
Singapore Independence
Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia and becomes an independent sovereign state
The Bombing of Hiroshima
A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima
The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers
In August 1996 in Iran, there was a plot to kill 21 writers on a bus jouney to Armenia
First Cochlear Implant
In August 1978 an Australian doctor successfully fitted a multi-channel cochlear implant.
