Witness History Episodes Available now
Keith Haring’s Berlin Wall mural
In October 1986, American artist Keith Haring painted a huge mural on the Berlin Wall
Malta’s divorce referendum
In 2011, Maltese voters went to the polls to decide if divorce should be legalised
How Ten Canoes made cinema history
In 2006, Australia's first feature film in Aboriginal languages was created
Gerald Durrell's mission to save species from extinction
In 1959, the writer Gerald Durrell opened the gates to a new kind of zoo
Manchester City’s inflatable banana craze
How City fans tried to bring back a bit of fun to the terraces in the late 1980s
Declaring chimpanzees an endangered species
In 1990, human’s closest living relatives were declared endangered for the first time
When Dian Fossey was murdered
American gorilla expert Dian Fossey was murdered in 1985 in the mountains of Rwanda
Washoe: The chimp who learnt to sign
By 1970 Washoe the chimp was thought to be the first non-human to learn a human language
Harry Harlow's monkey attachment studies
Harry Harlow's controversial monkey tests in the 1950s transformed ideas on attachment
The first monkeys to survive space travel
On 28 May 1959, the USA sent two monkeys into space and brought them back alive.
