Witness History Episodes Available now
The Boxing Day tsunami and Aceh
When the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 hit Indonesia, over 130,000 people died.
Festival in the Desert
In 2001 a festival held in the Sahara desert launched Tuareg music on the world scene
Tito on Vis
In 1944 the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic.
Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison
It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a jail.
Operation No Living Thing
In January 1999, a combined rebel force invaded the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War.
An Iraqi doctor remembers serving in one of the longest wars of the 20th Century.
Donald Campbell's Fatal Crash
In January 1967 the record-breaking driver was killed at the helm of his jetboat Bluebird
Waiting for Godot
How Samuel Beckett's existentialist masterpiece revolutionised the theatre 60 years ago.
The Keeling Curve
Meticulously recorded levels of CO2 in the atmosphere show how our climate is changing
Donald Woods flees South Africa
It is 35 years since the South African newspaper editor was forced into exile.
