A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to bigamy we look at recent changes in the way societ
This week how American cities like San Francisco became safe havens for undocumented immigrants, the
Former South African police minister on ending apartheid, eyewitness to Black Hawk Down, landmark s
On 26 January 1972 four Aboriginal men began a protest outside Parliament House in Canberra, Austral
The epic mini-series about slavery in the US hit TV screens in January 1977. We hear from actor Lesl
In 1997, the Princess of Wales made a high-profile visit to a landmine clearance programme in Angola
The early American Communists, a North Vietnamese tunneler who helped outsmart the Americans and win
December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hea
The controversial death in police custody of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, the Irish playwrig
The life and untimely death of a Basque separatist fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, a medi
A special edition of the programme remembering some of the women that history has overlooked. From w
The shooting of Bob Marley in 1976, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, how Ralph Nader made Amer
This week, the French Miners' strike of 1948, 50 years since the launch of the Cabaret musical, the
It is 25 years since Indonesian troops attacked protestors in the East Timorese capital, plus the im
A mass child sex abuse trial on a remote island in the Pacific that shocked the world, a controversi
On this week's programme, how pioneering American woman war reporter, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in
World War One veterans describe Shell Shock and Prof. Edgar Jones of Kings College on the psychiatri
One of the world's worst nuclear disasters, the most notorious prison riot in America, Second World
On 1 August 1966, student Charles Whitman shot dead 14 people and injured another 32 in America's fi
In this week's programme, we hear personal accounts of two fronts in America's Cold War fight agains
