Witness History Episodes Available now
JFK in Ireland
Novelist Colm Toibin recalls US President John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June 1963
Smoking and Lung Cancer
It took until the 1950s for researchers to connect smoking with lung cancer
War Requiem by Benjamin Britten
It is regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music.
Ultrasound
It's 55 years since a picture of a foetus inside the womb was first published.
The first woman in space
In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.
Murder in Managua
In June 1979 an American TV reporter was shot dead by government forces in Nicaragua
Rocky Horror Show
It is 40 years since the opening of a comedy musical which would become a cult phenomenon
The Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
It is 60 years since the American couple were executed for spying
Gay Marriage
The first gay marriage in America took place more than 40 years ago in Minnesota.
The Pentagon Papers
In 1971 one man leaked thousands of pages of secret US government documents to the press.
