Witness History Episodes Available now
The Guggenheim Bilbao
It's 15 years since an extraordinary building was opened in a Spanish industrial city.
The death of Hanns Martin Schleyer
35 years ago a German industrialist was kidnapped and killed by the Baader Meinhof Gang.
Colombia Peace Talks
The last serious attempt to end Colombia's long civil war was more than a decade ago.
The Greek Civil War
British troops liberated Greece from the Nazis in October 1944.
Cuban Missile Crisis: The Photos
CIA expert Dino Brugioni interpreted the ariel photographs of missiles in Cuba
Modern art in Tehran
It is 35 years since the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
Search for the Loch Ness Monster
It is 25 years since the most in-depth and expensive survey of Loch Ness.
Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize
How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.
Che in Congo
In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
The Achille Lauro Hijacking
In 1985 a luxury cruise liner was held by Palestinian gunmen in the Red Sea.
