Witness History Episodes Available now
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
The success of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Journalist Claude Angeli broke the story that helped topple France's President in 1981
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
The Jewish charity that helped people in the Bosnian war during the siege of Sarajevo
The Great Train Robbery
In 1963, thieves held up a Royal Mail train on its journey from Glasgow to London
Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
How Brownie Wise inspired an army of US housewives to sell Tupperware at parties
Dinosaur in court
In 2012 a dinosaur skeleton became the subject of a restraining order and a court case
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
In 1982 a Turkish worker in Germany built a treehouse against the Berlin Wall
Birth of a new language
In the early 1980s deaf children in Nicaragua invented a new sign language
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
In 1982, Ashok Sahni discovered nests of dinosaur eggs for the first time in India
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Uruguay's former president recounts his revolutionary past as a member of the Tupamaros
