Witness History Episodes Available now
Escaping national service in Eritrea
The story of one young Eritrean woman鈥檚 attempt to escape compulsory national service
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time, written by Prof Stephen Hawking, was published in March 1988
The first photo sent from a phone
In 1997, French engineer Philippe Kahn shared the first ever photo from a mobile phone
Godfather of manicures
In 1975, Minh Nguyen left behind his macho military life and re-trained as a manicurist
How Bengaluru became India鈥檚 Silicon Valley
Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, describes the city's technology revolution
The windmill that revolutionised wind power
In 1978, a group of volunteers in Denmark built their own wind turbine to power a school
Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'
In 1998, Keiko the Hollywood killer whale was released back into the wild
The man who lived in an airport
From 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, from Iran, spent 18 years living in a Paris airport
DDLJ: India鈥檚 longest running movie
The longest running film in India was released in 1995
Alcatraz: The strangest escape
Three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail, Alcatraz in June 1962
