Witness History Episodes Available now

The collapse of Lehman Brothers
The day that one of America's largest banks collapsed, triggering a global financial panic

Pope John Paul II's UK visit in 1982
The last time a Pope came to Britain was John Paul II's visit in 1982

Star Trek
How the sci-fi classic Star Trek was born

Chile Coup
The playwright, Ariel Dorfman, recalls the coup in Chile in September 1973.

Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality
In 1957, a government committee shocked Britain by calling for homosexuality to be legal.

Child Evacuees
Children were evacuated from Britain's towns and cities at the beginning of World War Two.

A Baader Meinhof victim
In 1977 the Baader Meinhof gang kidnapped and killed a leading German businessman.

Lord Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten, pillar of the British establishment, was killed by the IRA in 1979

Anniversary of the Beslan school siege of 2004
Six years on from the school siege in Beslan, one schoolgirl remembers

Oslo Talks
An insight into past Middle East Peace talks - a sense of humour makes a difference.