Witness History Episodes Available now
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China’s cultural revolution
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records
Paraguay adopts its second language
How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay’s new constitution
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Nearly 200 died when Spanish commuter trains were bombed in 2004
MH370: The plane that vanished
Ghyslain Wattrelos' wife and two children were on MH370, the plane that disappeared.
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict
