Witness History Episodes Available now
Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba
The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999
The Malayan Emergency
The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s
The sinking of the Belgrano
The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war
The Arctic African
Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.
Rupert Brooke
The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions
Ellen comes out
Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.
The al-Yamamah arms deals
A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s
Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave
The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world
South Africa's first free elections
After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.
Britain's first vegans
The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'
