Witness History Episodes Available now
Car Safety and Ralph Nader
In the early 1960s there were virtually no laws covering car safety in the USA.
A Black GI in China
How did a black American soldier end up living a privileged life in communist China?
The Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters
3 sisters in the Dominican Republic were beaten to death on the orders of the dictator
The Bugging of the US Embassy in Moscow
How the Soviets hid hi-tech bugs deep inside the walls of the new US embassy in Moscow.
The 1948 French Miners' Strike
How coal miners in France went from post-war heroes to pariahs
The Abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka
In 1965 a Moroccan disappeared from the streets of Paris. His body has never been found.
The Silk Letters Movement
In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered plans to overthrow British rule
The Concordski Crash
A fateful day in the race to develop the first supersonic passenger plane.
Saving Orphaned African Elephants
How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants
Marcel Duchamp in New York
Remembering a wartime surrealist exhibition put on by Marcel Duchamp.
