Witness History Episodes Available now
How a Pope is chosen
After the death of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI
The first black music station in Europe
In 1981, Leroy Anderson launched Europe鈥檚 first dedicated black music station
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
In 1993, Burundi鈥檚 first democratically elected President was murdered
Columbia space shuttle disaster
The US space shuttle Columbia broke up on its way back to Earth on 1 February 2003
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Two former Prime Ministers describe how they split Czechoslovakia in two in 1993
Palestine Post bombing
Mordechai Chertoff was the editor on the Palestine Post when it was bombed in 1948
Invention of the MP3
It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Using archive recordings, Alex Last tells the story of Britain's most famous hangman
Smolensk air disaster
In 2010, a plane carrying the Polish president, crashed and killed everyone on board
Japanese death row guard
Yoshikuni Noguchi was a prison guard in Japan and witnessed the hanging of a prisoner
