Witness History Episodes Available now
Penguin Rescue
The mission to save thousands of African penguins from an oil spill in July, 2000
Chilean Students Set on Fire
In July 1986 two students were set on fire by Chilean government soldiers
The Battle of Gettysburg
It is 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the American Civil War
Iraq's Sectarian Violence
The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07
JFK in Ireland
Novelist Colm Toibin recalls US President John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June 1963
Smoking and Lung Cancer
It took until the 1950s for researchers to connect smoking with lung cancer
War Requiem by Benjamin Britten
It is regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music.
Ultrasound
It's 55 years since a picture of a foetus inside the womb was first published.
The first woman in space
In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.
Murder in Managua
In June 1979 an American TV reporter was shot dead by government forces in Nicaragua
