Witness History Episodes Available now

Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
How the Chinese gooseberry became the kiwi and one of New Zealand’s biggest exports

Inventing Nutella
How the chocolate and hazelnut spread was created in 1946

'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
In 1969, the singer Dafydd Iwan campaigned for official recognition of the Welsh language

Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
There was an international outcry in 2014 when three journalists were imprisoned in Egypt

The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
In 1973, the poet and prominent communist tried to flee persecution in Chile

The assassination of King Faisal
In 1975, the king of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew

Tsunami devastates Samoa
In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss

The funeral of Nelson Mandela
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village

Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal

Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history