Witness History Episodes Available now
Women's Baseball in WWII
In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US
The Soviet Gulag
Hear one man's story of life in a Soviet labour camp during Stalin's rule.
Disco Demolition Night
How a disgruntled Chicago DJ hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot in 1979
Skylab Falls to Earth
The day when fragments of the US space station Skylab hit an Australian town in 1979
The Death of Thich Quang Duc
In June 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in central Saigon
Iran Student Protest
The Iranian student who became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests in 1999
The Death of Jean Moulin
The day the leader of the French Resistance was killed by German forces on July 08, 1943
The Crate Escape
In the summer of 1984 a Nigerian exile living in London was kidnapped in a crate.
Yasser Arafat Arrives in Gaza
When the Palestinian leader was allowed to return from exile to the Gaza strip in 1994
Ludwig Wittgenstein
How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy
