Witness History Episodes Available now
The Tehran Conference of World War Two
In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2
How Child Road Deaths Changed the Netherlands
The 1970s road safety campaign which changed the face of the Netherlands.
The First Panda in America
In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
How a preoccupation with coffee became the inspiration for the first webcam in 1993
Death in the Boxing Ring
In November 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight.
Making Doctor Who
On 23 November 1963, the first episode of Doctor Who was shown.
Birmingham Pub Bombings
In 1974, bombs exploded at two busy pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 - the IRA were blamed
The Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa
In 1995, writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni rights activists were executed in Nigeria
Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR
Before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald spent two and a half mysterious years in Minsk
The Jonestown Massacre
In November 1978 an American cult leader ordered more than 900 people to kill themselves.
