Witness History
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The first monkeys to survive space travel
Oct 12, 202610 min
The most successful Paralympian in history
Oct 10, 20269 min
The boy behind the creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh books
Oct 9, 202610 min
How rats were trained to clear landmines
Oct 8, 202610 min
The mirrors that lit up a dark Norwegian town
Oct 7, 20269 min
Egypt’s President Sadat is assassinated
Oct 6, 202610 min
The Peruvian pilots who secretly delivered fighter jets during the Falklands War
Oct 5, 202610 min
The first Rubik's Cube world champion
Oct 3, 202610 min
Boer War: Siege of Ladysmith
Oct 2, 202610 min
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Oct 1, 202610 min
The contraceptive pill gets legalised in Japan
Sep 30, 202610 min
Sulawesi's cave art and the origins of storytelling
Sep 29, 202610 min
The birth of Jodrell Bank
Sep 28, 202610 min
Harold Riley: Painting Nelson Mandela
Sep 25, 202610 min
Kinder Scout mass trespass
Sep 24, 202610 min
The gathering that helped shape decolonisation
Sep 23, 202610 min
‘Baby’ computer is invented
Sep 22, 202610 min
The nightclub that changed Manchester
Sep 21, 202610 min
The discovery of the San José shipwreck
Sep 18, 202610 min
The birth of India's call centre industry
Sep 17, 202611 min
Stardust: Ireland's deadly nightclub fire
Sep 16, 202610 min
Connecting homes to the internet using cable TV
Sep 15, 202610 min
Norway’s teacher resistance in World War Two
Sep 14, 202610 min
Firefighter: Surviving the 9/11 North Tower collapse
Sep 11, 202610 min
The weather report that changed the date of D-Day
Sep 10, 202610 min
Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive
Sep 9, 202610 min
The 'moving' statue of Ballinspittle
Sep 8, 202610 min
Surviving the Long March
Sep 7, 20269 min
Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss
Sep 4, 202610 min
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Sep 3, 202610 min
‘Genius’ sci-fi writer Octavia E Butler
Sep 2, 202610 min
Making Turkish Star Wars
Sep 1, 202610 min
'I created the Star Wars toys'
Aug 31, 202610 min
The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73
Aug 28, 202610 min
Hurricane Luis hits Antigua
Aug 27, 20269 min
Peace People: The Northern Ireland campaign group born from tragedy
Aug 26, 202610 min
Auschwitz: An SS officer’s photo album
Aug 25, 202610 min
Uruguay's water referendum
Aug 24, 202610 min
Defeating the screwworm
Aug 21, 202610 min
'I created the duck cake from Bluey'
Aug 20, 202610 min
Canada's controversial resettlement programme
Aug 19, 20269 min
The battle of Mandalay in WW2
Aug 18, 202610 min
Asha Bhosle: The world's most recorded artist
Aug 17, 202610 min
The tortoise and the hippo
Aug 14, 202610 min
Kenya's power-sharing deal
Aug 13, 202610 min
The last of the Mau Mau fighters
Aug 12, 202610 min
Treetops: The day a princess became a queen
Aug 11, 202610 min
Finding the den of the Tsavo man-eaters
Aug 10, 202611 min
The origins of the all-inclusive holiday
Aug 7, 202610 min
When Taiwan’s ‘White Terror’ ended
Aug 6, 20269 min