Witness History Episodes Available now
The GI who chose China
At the end of the Korean War, 21 American prisoners chose not to go home to the USA.
Womad
It is 30 years since the first Womad - world music festival- in England.
The Farewell dossier
How a mole in the KGB sent secrets to France and the USA in 1981.
The Death of Evita Peron
It is 60 years since the Argentine first lady died.
The first IVF baby
In July 1978 the first baby to be conceived in a laboratory was born in England.
Roosevelt in the Amazon
How the American president Theodore Roosevelt nearly died in the Amazon in 1914.
Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Janina Dawidowicz survived the Warsaw Ghetto as a child during World War Two.
The arrest of Jack Mapanje
It is 25 years since the poet was imprisoned without trial in Malawi.
CIA mind control experiments
Beginning in the 1950s the CIA made attempts to brainwash psychiatric patients.
Miguel Angel Blanco
How the killing of a young Basque councillor sparked huge anti-ETA protests in Spain.
