Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
Published on Saturday, 26th April 2025.
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there
Published on Saturday, 19th April 2025.
How ordinary people in Germany experienced the end of World War II
Published on Monday, 14th April 2025.
The 1933 Reichstag fire, and Liberia's women in white
Published on Saturday, 12th April 2025.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes
Published on Friday, 4th April 2025.
Published on Saturday, 29th March 2025.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
Published on Saturday, 22nd March 2025.
Published on Saturday, 15th March 2025.
How the shopping trolley was invented in 1937 and the 2015 European migrant crisis
Published on Saturday, 8th March 2025.
One of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century and the Nellie massacre
Published on Saturday, 1st March 2025.
We hear about the death of an ancient language and a record-breaking kiss
Published on Saturday, 22nd February 2025.
A look at some of the great speeches from the last decade of history
Published on Saturday, 15th February 2025.
How a film flops become cult classics and the philosopher behind deconstruction theory
Published on Saturday, 8th February 2025.
We hear from 'Wolf child' Luise Quietsch and how actress Kathy Flower became a star
Published on Saturday, 1st February 2025.
We’re hearing stories from 30 years ago
Published on Saturday, 25th January 2025.
Dramatizing World War Two history and the start of a landmark magazine for Africa
Published on Saturday, 18th January 2025.
10 years since the massacre in France plus Marie Kondo
Published on Saturday, 11th January 2025.
Stories from the 2004 tsunami that destroyed parts of south-east Asia, plus making Alexa
Published on Saturday, 4th January 2025.
The British sitcom that’s loved by Germans, and the chef who’s cooked for five presidents
Published on Saturday, 28th December 2024.
Australia's 1999 referendum and a survivor recounts the horrific 1972 Andes plane crash
Published on Saturday, 21st December 2024.
How the Panama Canal changed the Americas, and the US military's most successful regiment
Published on Saturday, 14th December 2024.
Inspiring and influential women from around the world in partnership with BBC 100 Women
Published on Saturday, 7th December 2024.
A compilation of Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes.
Published on Saturday, 30th November 2024.
The pianist who played on when Damascus was bombed and the Christians who met in secret
Published on Saturday, 23rd November 2024.
A half-clay, half-grass tennis court, losing a crown and a mine rescue
Published on Saturday, 16th November 2024.
Female heroes from WW2, the pioneering 'Baby' computer and the Iranian Revolution
Published on Saturday, 9th November 2024.
The Siegfried and Roy show in Las Vegas which ended in a tiger attack and tragedy in 2003
Published on Saturday, 2nd November 2024.
Fifty years of the fantasy tabletop role-play game and a fossil discovery
Published on Friday, 25th October 2024.
The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan in 2014 and the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003
Published on Friday, 18th October 2024.
The stories behind the first electronic computers, chatbots, QR codes and humanoid robots
Published on Friday, 11th October 2024.
How one Latin American flight was hijacked for 60 hours and the infamous Kristallnacht
Published on Friday, 4th October 2024.
South Africa's ban on inter-racial relationships, the Estonia ferry disaster and Tupac
Published on Friday, 27th September 2024.
How New Zealand's first dinosaur was discovered and the pneumonic plague in India
Published on Saturday, 21st September 2024.
It’s 50 years since Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup
Published on Friday, 13th September 2024.
The law that banned married women from working and Apollo 13's attempted trip to the Moon
Published on Friday, 6th September 2024.
Befriending Soviet cosmonauts and why the author of Mary Poppins hated the film
Published on Friday, 30th August 2024.
Nazis in Egypt and the origins of the largest food fight in the world
Published on Friday, 23rd August 2024.
Published on Friday, 16th August 2024.
It's 50 years since Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign
Published on Friday, 9th August 2024.
Published on Friday, 2nd August 2024.
Published on Friday, 26th July 2024.
Max Pearson presents this week's Witness History interviews on the history of Cyprus
Published on Friday, 19th July 2024.
Published on Saturday, 13th July 2024.
Published on Friday, 5th July 2024.
Published on Friday, 28th June 2024.
How holidays evolved from luxury cruises to exotic locations
Published on Friday, 21st June 2024.
Published on Friday, 14th June 2024.
Published on Friday, 7th June 2024.
Published on Friday, 31st May 2024.
Max Pearson presents a collection footwear themed Witness History programmes.
Published on Friday, 24th May 2024.
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia, and catching spy Ana Montes
Published on Friday, 17th May 2024.
A unique digital ID for one billion Indians and Princess Diana alone at the Taj Mahal
Published on Friday, 10th May 2024.
Published on Friday, 3rd May 2024.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this weeks Witness History Episodes
Published on Friday, 26th April 2024.
Published on Saturday, 20th April 2024.
Recovering The Scream, the story of St Teresa of Avila and the Kampala terror attacks
Published on Friday, 12th April 2024.
Published on Friday, 5th April 2024.
The 75th anniversary of Nato, Britain's Mirpuri migration, and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Published on Saturday, 30th March 2024.
50 years of the Terracotta Army and the father of Pinyin
Published on Saturday, 23rd March 2024.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
Published on Saturday, 16th March 2024.
Published on Saturday, 9th March 2024.
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2024.
Published on Saturday, 24th February 2024.
Published on Saturday, 17th February 2024.
Inspirational black women throughout history
Published on Saturday, 10th February 2024.
The opening of the first commercial internet cafe and storing seeds in an Artic vault
Published on Saturday, 3rd February 2024.
Historical figures branded traitors
Published on Saturday, 27th January 2024.
Why Nigeria went went wild for Ibadan Zoo and the Indian campaigner nicknamed Lady Tarzan
Published on Saturday, 20th January 2024.
A collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service
Published on Saturday, 13th January 2024.
Herb Morrison's iconic broadcast about the airship crash and the invention of wingsuits
Published on Saturday, 6th January 2024.
The disputed history of Thailand’s national dish and how Ken Hom promoted Chinese cookery
Published on Saturday, 30th December 2023.
The tsunami that devastated Samoa and when Caster Semenya faced questions over her gender
Published on Saturday, 23rd December 2023.
Nelson Mandela's daughter talks about her father's funeral and Russia buries its past
Published on Saturday, 16th December 2023.
Published on Saturday, 9th December 2023.
The Peruvian bird saved from the brink of extinction and the Cabbage Patch Kids craze
Published on Saturday, 2nd December 2023.
An African nation is born in 1964 and a new invention changes the tea drinking world
Published on Saturday, 25th November 2023.
Icelandic volcano eruption stops European air travel in 2010 and inventing the EpiPen
Published on Saturday, 18th November 2023.
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
Published on Saturday, 11th November 2023.
Aleida Guevara on being a doctor in Angola's civil war and Jane Seymour on Fashion Aid
Published on Saturday, 4th November 2023.
Published on Friday, 27th October 2023.
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week
Published on Friday, 20th October 2023.
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated
Published on Friday, 13th October 2023.
Why oil prices spiralled in 1973, plus Amoco Cadiz, one of the world’s largest oil spills
Published on Friday, 6th October 2023.
The sinking of a migrant boat 10 years ago, and the world's first cat cafe in Taiwan.
Published on Friday, 29th September 2023.
Adolf Hitler’s order to sterilise people, and the ‘world’s most annoying instrument’
Published on Friday, 22nd September 2023.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
Published on Friday, 15th September 2023.
The 1973 military coup in Chile and Zanzibar’s ‘golden grandmother of music’
Published on Saturday, 9th September 2023.
The first inter-Korean summit in 50 years and the Mexican island overrun by goats
Published on Friday, 1st September 2023.
The Celtic Tiger, the first Rose of Tralee and activist swimmers in Dublin.
Published on Friday, 25th August 2023.
The legacy of Judy Garland and the return of two looted Benin Bronzes stolen in 1897
Published on Friday, 18th August 2023.
A duck that toppled a president, a British train robbery and the Tupperware party boom.
Published on Friday, 11th August 2023.
Prehistoric eggs, a dinosaur in court and the treehouse built beside the Berlin Wall.
Published on Saturday, 5th August 2023.
The rise of Mr Bigg's in Nigeria and the man who made the first personal computer virus
Published on Friday, 28th July 2023.
A compilation of this week's Witness History episodes
Published on Friday, 21st July 2023.
The world's first robot dog, the first emoji and the invention of the Rubik's Cube
Published on Friday, 14th July 2023.
How tourism began in the Maldives, the start of the NHS in the UK and a royal night out
Published on Friday, 7th July 2023.
Seoul's department store collapse and the man who made Lady Gaga's meat dress
Published on Friday, 30th June 2023.
The Somali pilot who defied orders to bomb civilians, and playing golf on the moon
Published on Saturday, 24th June 2023.
Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa
Published on Friday, 16th June 2023.
Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada
Published on Friday, 9th June 2023.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest
Published on Friday, 2nd June 2023.
A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru
Published on Saturday, 27th May 2023.
Published on Friday, 19th May 2023.
The Allies' campaign in North Africa and the last flight out of a Hong Kong airport
Published on Friday, 12th May 2023.
The removal of a symbolic royal stone and the former child King turned Prime Minister
Published on Friday, 5th May 2023.
Trinidadian Althea McNish designs for Queen Elizabeth II and the Met Gala's popularity
Published on Friday, 28th April 2023.
Inventing the labradoodle, the first dog in space and the world's first therapy dog
Published on Friday, 21st April 2023.
The unearthing of a mass grave in Ukraine, and the Boston bombing in 2013
Published on Saturday, 15th April 2023.
One woman's journey to escape Eritrea and how Zumba was invented by accident
Published on Saturday, 8th April 2023.
Vietnam's manicure godfather and how Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley
Published on Saturday, 1st April 2023.
The longest running Indian film and freeing Free Willy
Published on Saturday, 25th March 2023.
Stories marking 20 years since the American led invasion of Iraq in March 2003
Published on Saturday, 18th March 2023.
A compilation of stories celebrating women who made history
Published on Saturday, 11th March 2023.
Gay men in Nazi concentration camps and the murder of Serbia's Prime Minister
Published on Saturday, 4th March 2023.
Ethnic tensions in Mauritius and the Queen's 2012 Olympic wow moment
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
Workers' strikes in Italy and 100 years since the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber
Published on Saturday, 18th February 2023.
Stories about the history of the papacy, including Benedict XVI's resignation
Published on Saturday, 11th February 2023.
The first black music station in Europe and why Czechoslovakia split into two states
Published on Saturday, 4th February 2023.
A prison guard and a hangman discuss capital punishment among other stories
Published on Saturday, 28th January 2023.
Horsemeat found in burgers and the aeroplane which safely landed on water in New York
Published on Saturday, 21st January 2023.
Plastics in oceans were first discovered over fifty years ago
Published on Saturday, 14th January 2023.
Russian rebels and the most bizarre football match of all time
Published on Saturday, 7th January 2023.
Stories about the history of food, including the creation of ciabatta bread in Italy
Published on Saturday, 31st December 2022.
The BBC Caribbean Service and broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Published on Saturday, 24th December 2022.
The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in South Africa
Published on Saturday, 17th December 2022.
Max Person presents a collection of this weeks Witness history episodes
Published on Saturday, 10th December 2022.
How four islands complicate the post World War Two relationship between Japan and Russia
Published on Saturday, 3rd December 2022.
Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, on being put on trial among other stories
Published on Saturday, 26th November 2022.
Stories from the Arabian Peninsula to mark the start of the World Cup in Qatar
Published on Saturday, 19th November 2022.
Racism led to raids in the 1970s, protests in the 1980s, and a political assassination
Published on Saturday, 12th November 2022.
The best Championship Manager player ever and sex-selective abortion in India
Published on Saturday, 5th November 2022.
A focus on global events where women have taken a stand for equality from Sudan to Iran
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2022.
Cuban boxing, the brink of nuclear war and baseball as diplomacy
Published on Saturday, 22nd October 2022.
When workers around the world took industrial action in pursuit of better conditions
Published on Saturday, 15th October 2022.
Racially inclusive clubbing arrives in Manchester and the release of Gilad Shalit
Published on Saturday, 8th October 2022.
The Dassler brothers' rift, castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos and Jomo Kenyatta's rule
Published on Saturday, 1st October 2022.
A look at some of Queen Elizabeth II's most significant broadcasts
Published on Saturday, 24th September 2022.
Stories from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II including memories of her coronation
Published on Sunday, 18th September 2022.
Stories from Brazil, including the murder of Tim Lopes and the creation of Brasilia
Published on Sunday, 11th September 2022.
Perestroika in the Soviet Union and the release of the dissident poet Ratushinskaya
Published on Saturday, 3rd September 2022.
Inflation and the cost of living, the Darayya massacre, and the first Gay Games
Published on Saturday, 27th August 2022.
A compilation of stories marking 75 years since India's Partition
Published on Saturday, 20th August 2022.
Ibiza's clubbing scene, Indonesian forest fires and the resignation of Richard Nixon
Published on Saturday, 13th August 2022.
A compilation of stories marking 50 years since Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda
Published on Saturday, 6th August 2022.
A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks and the invention of the nicotine patch
Published on Saturday, 30th July 2022.
The history of television from around the world and its enduring impact
Published on Saturday, 23rd July 2022.
Experiences from both sides of the abortion debate plus the story of the Pill
Published on Saturday, 16th July 2022.
Jose Sarria's political journey, Smear Tests, Discovery of Higgs Boson
Published on Saturday, 9th July 2022.
The last governor of Hong Kong, a pro democracy campaigner and life in Kowloon Walled City
Published on Saturday, 2nd July 2022.
Egypt's first democratic election, the murder of Vincent Chin, the UK's first Pride march
Published on Saturday, 25th June 2022.
Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute
Published on Saturday, 18th June 2022.
Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests
Published on Saturday, 11th June 2022.
Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation
Published on Saturday, 4th June 2022.
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
Published on Saturday, 28th May 2022.
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
Published on Saturday, 21st May 2022.
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallajökull erupts
Published on Saturday, 14th May 2022.
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
Published on Saturday, 7th May 2022.
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic “birth of a nation”
Published on Saturday, 30th April 2022.
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
Published on Saturday, 9th April 2022.
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
Published on Saturday, 2nd April 2022.
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Published on Saturday, 26th March 2022.
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
Published on Saturday, 12th March 2022.
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
Published on Saturday, 5th March 2022.
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
Published on Saturday, 19th February 2022.
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
Published on Saturday, 12th February 2022.
Kazakhstan’s new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
Published on Saturday, 5th February 2022.
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
Published on Saturday, 29th January 2022.
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
Published on Saturday, 22nd January 2022.
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
Published on Saturday, 15th January 2022.
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule
Published on Saturday, 8th January 2022.
The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly
Published on Saturday, 1st January 2022.
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
Published on Saturday, 25th December 2021.
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
Published on Saturday, 18th December 2021.
A history of HIV/Aids over the past 40 years.
Published on Saturday, 4th December 2021.
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
Published on Saturday, 27th November 2021.
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
Published on Saturday, 20th November 2021.
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
Published on Saturday, 13th November 2021.
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
Published on Saturday, 6th November 2021.
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
Published on Saturday, 30th October 2021.
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
Published on Saturday, 23rd October 2021.
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
Published on Saturday, 16th October 2021.
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
Published on Saturday, 9th October 2021.
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
Published on Saturday, 2nd October 2021.
Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy
Published on Saturday, 25th September 2021.
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
Published on Saturday, 18th September 2021.
A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.
Published on Saturday, 11th September 2021.
A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close
Published on Saturday, 4th September 2021.
How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America
Published on Saturday, 28th August 2021.
The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975
Published on Saturday, 21st August 2021.
In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe
Published on Saturday, 14th August 2021.
The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer
Published on Saturday, 7th August 2021.
Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.
Published on Saturday, 24th July 2021.
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine
Published on Saturday, 17th July 2021.
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea
Published on Saturday, 10th July 2021.
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.
Published on Saturday, 3rd July 2021.
One African-American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.
Published on Saturday, 19th June 2021.
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections
Published on Saturday, 12th June 2021.
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
Published on Saturday, 5th June 2021.
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
Published on Saturday, 29th May 2021.
The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands
Published on Saturday, 22nd May 2021.
A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story
Published on Saturday, 15th May 2021.
Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction
Published on Saturday, 8th May 2021.
The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks
Published on Saturday, 1st May 2021.
A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle
Published on Saturday, 24th April 2021.
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion
Published on Saturday, 17th April 2021.
Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.
Published on Saturday, 10th April 2021.
The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped
Published on Saturday, 3rd April 2021.
South Africa fights for cheaper drugs, slavery in Mauritania and a sex therapy legend.
Published on Saturday, 27th March 2021.
A Jamaican drug lord, New York’s drag scene and cold war chess in the Soviet Union.
Published on Saturday, 20th March 2021.
Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles
Published on Saturday, 13th March 2021.
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.
Published on Saturday, 6th March 2021.
The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines
Published on Saturday, 27th February 2021.
How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes
Published on Saturday, 20th February 2021.
Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless
Published on Saturday, 13th February 2021.
The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus
Published on Saturday, 6th February 2021.
Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes
Published on Saturday, 30th January 2021.
Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries
Published on Saturday, 23rd January 2021.
Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan
Published on Saturday, 16th January 2021.
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
Published on Saturday, 9th January 2021.
Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Published on Saturday, 2nd January 2021.
Featuring It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin
Published on Saturday, 26th December 2020.
How Bangladesh’s struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.
Published on Saturday, 19th December 2020.
The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.
Published on Saturday, 12th December 2020.
How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs
Published on Saturday, 5th December 2020.
The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar
Published on Saturday, 28th November 2020.
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
Published on Saturday, 21st November 2020.
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
Published on Saturday, 14th November 2020.
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
Published on Saturday, 7th November 2020.
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
Published on Saturday, 31st October 2020.
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
Published on Saturday, 24th October 2020.
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
Published on Saturday, 17th October 2020.
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
Published on Saturday, 10th October 2020.
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
Published on Saturday, 3rd October 2020.
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
Published on Saturday, 26th September 2020.
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina
Published on Saturday, 19th September 2020.
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
Published on Saturday, 12th September 2020.
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
Published on Saturday, 5th September 2020.
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
Published on Friday, 28th August 2020.
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
Published on Saturday, 22nd August 2020.
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
Published on Saturday, 15th August 2020.
It’s 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
Published on Saturday, 8th August 2020.
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
Published on Saturday, 1st August 2020.
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
Published on Saturday, 25th July 2020.
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
Published on Saturday, 18th July 2020.
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
Published on Saturday, 4th July 2020.
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
Published on Saturday, 27th June 2020.
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
Published on Saturday, 20th June 2020.
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.
Published on Saturday, 13th June 2020.
How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo
Published on Saturday, 6th June 2020.
South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests
Published on Saturday, 30th May 2020.
How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.
Published on Saturday, 23rd May 2020.
Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.
Published on Saturday, 16th May 2020.
Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.
Published on Saturday, 9th May 2020.
A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.
Published on Saturday, 2nd May 2020.
The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.
Published on Saturday, 25th April 2020.
50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.
Published on Saturday, 18th April 2020.
Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.
Published on Saturday, 11th April 2020.
Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship
Published on Saturday, 4th April 2020.
How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.
Published on Saturday, 28th March 2020.
Putting an observatory in space; China's cure for malaria; the "Red Scare" in Hollywood.
Published on Saturday, 21st March 2020.
Eyewitnesses accounts of battling deadly viruses from the 1918 flu, to Ebola and SARS.
Published on Saturday, 14th March 2020.
How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2.
Published on Saturday, 7th March 2020.
How a former prisoner fought to free her friends, an Antarctic mystery, and rebel nuns
Published on Saturday, 29th February 2020.
Environmentalists save the ice continent; how meditation changes the brain; Nigerian art.
Published on Saturday, 22nd February 2020.
The origins of the boy wizard, plus Mao's Little Red Book and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
Published on Saturday, 15th February 2020.
London's first black policeman, a new sign language, and the release of Nelson Mandela
Published on Saturday, 8th February 2020.
The EU in the 1950s, the British royal scandal and the self-made female millionaire.
Published on Saturday, 1st February 2020.
How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.
Published on Saturday, 25th January 2020.
East Germany's secret police; killing Osama Bin Laden; saving aristocrats' houses
Published on Saturday, 18th January 2020.
Bringing laptops into education; the battle for Fallujah; environmentalist Chico Mendes.
Published on Saturday, 11th January 2020.
Environmental warnings from 1972, El Salvador, East German punks and the Chippendales.
Published on Saturday, 4th January 2020.
The Soviet-Afghan war, the invention of chemotherapy, and Cirque du Soleil.
Published on Saturday, 28th December 2019.
In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Published on Saturday, 21st December 2019.
The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar
Published on Saturday, 7th December 2019.
The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .
Published on Saturday, 30th November 2019.
An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro
Published on Saturday, 23rd November 2019.
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen
Published on Saturday, 16th November 2019.
'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert
Published on Saturday, 9th November 2019.
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
Published on Saturday, 2nd November 2019.
A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.
Published on Saturday, 26th October 2019.
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
Published on Saturday, 19th October 2019.
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
Published on Saturday, 12th October 2019.
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
Published on Saturday, 5th October 2019.
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
Published on Saturday, 28th September 2019.
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
Published on Saturday, 21st September 2019.
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
Published on Saturday, 14th September 2019.
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.
Published on Saturday, 7th September 2019.
Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone
Published on Saturday, 31st August 2019.
Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children
Published on Saturday, 24th August 2019.
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
Published on Saturday, 17th August 2019.
Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.
Published on Saturday, 10th August 2019.
The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.
Published on Saturday, 3rd August 2019.
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China
Published on Saturday, 27th July 2019.
To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.
Published on Saturday, 20th July 2019.
Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon
Published on Saturday, 13th July 2019.
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.
Published on Saturday, 6th July 2019.
The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22
Published on Saturday, 29th June 2019.
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
Published on Saturday, 22nd June 2019.
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
Published on Friday, 14th June 2019.
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
Published on Saturday, 8th June 2019.
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
Published on Saturday, 1st June 2019.
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
Published on Saturday, 25th May 2019.
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
Published on Saturday, 18th May 2019.
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
Published on Monday, 13th May 2019.
Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"
Published on Saturday, 4th May 2019.
The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"
Published on Saturday, 27th April 2019.
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.
Published on Saturday, 13th April 2019.
How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.
Published on Saturday, 6th April 2019.
A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.
Published on Saturday, 30th March 2019.
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
Published on Saturday, 23rd March 2019.
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria
Published on Saturday, 16th March 2019.
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins
Published on Saturday, 9th March 2019.
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2019.
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.
Published on Saturday, 23rd February 2019.
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.
Published on Saturday, 16th February 2019.
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising
Published on Saturday, 9th February 2019.
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979
Published on Saturday, 2nd February 2019.
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.
Published on Saturday, 26th January 2019.
How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.
Published on Saturday, 19th January 2019.
Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault
Published on Monday, 14th January 2019.
Exciting discovery in Canada plus a rebel attack in Central America and Brazilian booty.
Published on Saturday, 5th January 2019.
The most striking and well documented UFO "sightings" there have ever been.
Published on Saturday, 29th December 2018.
A passenger helps overcome Richard Reid, plus US apology for Japanese American internment
Published on Saturday, 22nd December 2018.
The astronauts who changed our view of the Earth, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama.
Published on Saturday, 15th December 2018.
Child survivor of a Guatemalan army massacre, Bokassa's coronation, Armenia's earthquake
Published on Saturday, 8th December 2018.
The first British man to die of AIDS, 1950s whale hunting, and the real Indiana Jones
Published on Saturday, 1st December 2018.
The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death
Published on Saturday, 24th November 2018.
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
Published on Saturday, 17th November 2018.
Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.
Published on Saturday, 10th November 2018.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.
Published on Friday, 26th October 2018.
The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden
A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis
Published on Saturday, 20th October 2018.
The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.
Published on Saturday, 6th October 2018.
Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies
Published on Saturday, 22nd September 2018.
A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.
Published on Saturday, 15th September 2018.
How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner
Published on Saturday, 8th September 2018.
A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster
Published on Saturday, 1st September 2018.
Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.
Published on Saturday, 25th August 2018.
WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.
Published on Saturday, 18th August 2018.
First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, and dancing bears
Published on Saturday, 4th August 2018.
How the true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was uncovered after independence.
Published on Friday, 27th July 2018.
The murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918.
Published on Saturday, 21st July 2018.
India on the nuclear world stage, the Spiegel Affair and the refugee "Phantom Shipwreck."
Published on Saturday, 14th July 2018.
The tragic story of Flight 655, a Russian art controversy, plus Madeleine Albright
Published on Saturday, 7th July 2018.
The power of the NRA; murdered Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; Swedish submarine drama
Published on Saturday, 30th June 2018.
Key witnesses to the turbulent history of North and South Korea.
Published on Saturday, 16th June 2018.
The 1968 student protest in Communist Yugoslavia and the running craze 'from couch to 5k'
Published on Saturday, 9th June 2018.
The birth of Britain's NHS; the Thalidomide trial; and discovering a baby woolly mammoth
Published on Sunday, 3rd June 2018.
How riots toppled a dictator; honouring Holocaust survivors in film; BBC lesbian protest.
Published on Saturday, 26th May 2018.
A riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968
Published on Saturday, 19th May 2018.
From child king to prime minister, the story of Bulgaria's King Simeon II.
Published on Saturday, 12th May 2018.
Britain's first female PM, prisoners on the high seas, and the story of Takeshi's Castle
Published on Saturday, 5th May 2018.
Secret attempt at Mid-East peace, remembering Pablo Picasso, the death of the Red Baron.
Published on Saturday, 28th April 2018.
The birth of the modern environmental movement.
Published on Saturday, 21st April 2018.
Robert Mugabe sent troops to put down opposition supporters in western Zimbabwe in 1983.
Published on Saturday, 14th April 2018.
Peace in Northern Ireland; a cross-community Bosnian choir and a pioneering woman banker.
Published on Saturday, 31st March 2018.
Why the BBC started broadcasting to South America, plus the My Lai massacre.
Published on Saturday, 17th March 2018.
A protest for deaf rights; a new alphabet for Azerbaijan, Marie Stopes and Wonder Woman
Published on Saturday, 10th March 2018.
The revolutionary Chinese healthcare scheme and the ground-breaking US TV show M*A*S*H.
Published on Saturday, 3rd March 2018.
How a young boy lived with a rare genetic disorder plus "Ghana Must Go" and Infinite Jest
Published on Saturday, 24th February 2018.
Iran's first minister for Women's Affairs, headscarf revolutionaries and battling for Hue
Published on Saturday, 17th February 2018.
The plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's "Busby Babes" in 1958.
Published on Saturday, 10th February 2018.
A turning point in the Vietnam War; the birth of gospel music; Ireland's Bloody Sunday.
Published on Saturday, 3rd February 2018.
When North Korea and the US came close to war; plus Salvador Dali, the origins of Lego
Published on Saturday, 27th January 2018.
The post-Apartheid reckoning in South Africa; adoption in Guatemala; Women in World War I
Published on Saturday, 20th January 2018.
When France said 'Non' to Britain, the first iPhone, and the record for staying awake
Published on Saturday, 13th January 2018.
Mrs Yeltsin, on the day Boris shocked the world plus the Mafia's grip on America exposed.
Published on Saturday, 6th January 2018.
How Black activists invented a new holiday, flying around the world and Leningrad in WW2.
Published on Saturday, 30th December 2017.
One of the most successful American films ever; BR Ambedkar; and the invention of WiFi.
Published on Saturday, 23rd December 2017.
The African-American lab technician who pioneered surgery that saved millions of babies.
Published on Saturday, 16th December 2017.
Aden's independence from Britain, discovering whalesong & building Mount Rushmore statues
Published on Saturday, 9th December 2017.
The murder of a former Russian spy, El Salvador's Civil War, and an oil spill in Spain.
Published on Saturday, 2nd December 2017.
The 1979 battle for the holiest site in Islam; Vietnam's deadly coup; prosecuting Manson
Published on Saturday, 25th November 2017.
Women searching for their missing loved-ones in Lebanon, plus diamonds and naked dancing.
Published on Saturday, 18th November 2017.
Voices from the Russian Revolution; the first dog in space; and the songbird of Lebanon
Published on Saturday, 11th November 2017.
The monk who began a religious revolution, the Naked Ape and internet sex and censorship.
Published on Saturday, 4th November 2017.
Escaping the Nazis in WW2 Hungary, Romania's abortion ban, and a literary love affair.
Published on Sunday, 29th October 2017.
Veterans fight fascism in 1940s Britain; The death of Samora Machel, Moscow theatre siege
Published on Saturday, 21st October 2017.
The final hours of the revolutionary hero, Italy's looted art and Madonna's early years.
Published on Saturday, 14th October 2017.
Why the brutal killing of a young gay man in Wyoming prompted change.
Published on Saturday, 7th October 2017.
The Great Wall of China; the death of a Pope; and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko
Published on Friday, 29th September 2017.
From a guide dog on 9/11 to Australia's rabbit plague - five stories from animal history.
Published on Sunday, 24th September 2017.
The run on a British bank, a schoolboy arrested in East Germany, and Nigerian treasures.
Published on Saturday, 16th September 2017.
Searching for a spirit world after WW1, plus Jamaica's worst train crash, and Biosphere 2
Published on Saturday, 9th September 2017.
Princess Diana's brother remembers the passionate speech he gave at her funeral.
Published on Saturday, 2nd September 2017.
Dealing with the medical horrors of WW1, Germany puts Nazis on trial and Botox.
Published on Saturday, 26th August 2017.
The ethics of fashion; the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974; and the "Bard of Bengal".
Published on Saturday, 19th August 2017.
Reagan's bombing joke, the murder of Naji al Ali, and violence in pre-partition India
Published on Friday, 11th August 2017.
The horrific use of aversion therapy for gay men; plus Chiang Kai Shek's former aide.
Published on Saturday, 29th July 2017.
Spooking fighters during the Vietnam War plus the Mont Blanc Tunnel and a Nintendo legend
Published on Saturday, 22nd July 2017.
A watershed moment for Canada's indigenous people, the birth of UKIP and Rave.
Published on Saturday, 15th July 2017.
In July 1947 a US rancher found debris which some believe came from an alien spacecraft.
Published on Saturday, 8th July 2017.
The Icelandic firm that broke the mould in air travel, the Hippie trail and Euro Disney.
Published on Sunday, 2nd July 2017.
Murder and conspiracy among Italy's elite, atrocity in 1930s Ethiopia, and Body Worlds
Published on Saturday, 24th June 2017.
In June 1982 Phyllis Schlafly defeated a law to guarantee gender equality in the US.
Published on Saturday, 17th June 2017.
Soldiers from both sides on the battle for Jerusalem; plus Robert Kennedy's assassination
Published on Saturday, 10th June 2017.
Citizens sponsor refugees, a rock concert for Chernobyl and the first US female rabbi.
Published on Saturday, 3rd June 2017.
Racial segregation ends in US schools; Iran's 2009 election protest; and Weight Watchers
Published on Saturday, 20th May 2017.
The French minister tried for Nazi collusion, the USSR's 007 and US wine beats French.
Published on Saturday, 13th May 2017.
The start of the cosmetic surgery industry; the Tajik Civil War; and Magnum photo agency
Published on Saturday, 6th May 2017.
Defying Argentina's military rulers, when Syria left Lebanon and Bosnia's rape camps.
Published on Saturday, 29th April 2017.
Charlie Chaplin, images of the furthest galaxies and the world's first black festival.
Published on Saturday, 22nd April 2017.
A setback for media freedom in Russia; Ethiopia's Red Terror; and WW2's Katyn massacre.
Published on Saturday, 15th April 2017.
A handshake that changed attitudes to AIDS, America enters WW1, and Egypt's Facebook girl
Published on Monday, 10th April 2017.
The GM food debate, an anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union, and the Teletubbies turn 20.
Published on Saturday, 1st April 2017.
The Russian Revolution, AIDS and 'Patient Zero' plus escaping the Nazis as a child.
Published on Saturday, 18th March 2017.
Kuwaiti women win the vote; smog in Mexico, and America's first Islamic terror incident
Published on Friday, 10th March 2017.
Life with Mother Teresa, the birth of Nollywood and Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House.
Published on Saturday, 4th March 2017.
Nazis in 1930s America; Slobodan Milosevic on trial; attacks on Denmark's Little Mermaid.
Published on Saturday, 25th February 2017.
From speed-dating to gay romance, from divorce to chastity, recent changes in love.
Published on Saturday, 18th February 2017.
US safe havens for undocumented immigrants, a killer killer whale, DNA, and a Kenyan hit.
Published on Saturday, 11th February 2017.
Former South African police minister talks apartheid, Black Hawk Down and a polar record
Published on Saturday, 4th February 2017.
Indigenous rights in Australia, the invention of the microwave, and Desert Island Discs.
Published on Saturday, 28th January 2017.
Slavery on US TV, peace in El Salvador, Hrant Dink's murder; and Dungeons and Dragons.
Published on Saturday, 21st January 2017.
A royal visit boosts landmine campaigners, Turkey's headscarf pioneer and spying in WW1
Published on Saturday, 14th January 2017.
American Communists, gun-toting children in Albania and death and forgiveness in Ecuador.
Published on Saturday, 7th January 2017.
Key players in the fall of the USSR recall the momentous events of December 1991
Published on Saturday, 31st December 2016.
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon
Published on Saturday, 24th December 2016.
The death of a Basque fighter, resisting the Nazis in Lithuania, and a Hindu milk miracle
Published on Friday, 16th December 2016.
A special edition of the programme remembering women that history has overlooked.
Published on Saturday, 10th December 2016.
The shooting of Bob Marley, the resistance of the Mirabal Sisters, Colombia's Lost City
Published on Saturday, 3rd December 2016.
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes, to pariahs.
Published on Friday, 25th November 2016.
Horror in East Timor, book-burning in Britain and the birth of the James Bond theme tune.
Published on Saturday, 19th November 2016.
Alleged sex abuse on a remote island, a controversial Kurdish song, men versus computers
Published on Sunday, 13th November 2016.
The pioneering American woman journalist; life in Mao's China; and Harry Houdini.
Published on Saturday, 5th November 2016.
The psychiatric cost of WW1; Hungary's 1956 uprising, Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2016.
A nuclear disaster, America's worst prison riot, World War Two internment and apartheid
Published on Friday, 30th September 2016.
The first campus killings in the US; an arts festival in Lebanon; meeting JD Salinger
Published on Monday, 8th August 2016.
America's fight against communism; giant China earthquake; riots in Liverpool; Picasso.
Published on Saturday, 30th July 2016.
Socialism in Tanzania, assassination in the Caribbean, the Concordski crash and Date Rape
Published on Saturday, 4th June 2016.
German drugs company goes on trial; Hands Across America; the execution of Anne Boleyn.
Published on Saturday, 28th May 2016.
Remembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini
Published on Saturday, 30th April 2016.
Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice
Published on Saturday, 12th March 2016.
The battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look
Published on Saturday, 20th February 2016.
The birth of the Prozac generation, saving ancient Afghan artworks, plus a Disney classic
Published on Saturday, 6th February 2016.
The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Sharia in Nigeria, and Batman.
Published on Saturday, 30th January 2016.
The release of the world's best-selling album, the death of a WW2 hero, and Beagle 2
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
The hunt for Bin Laden, a KKK trial, the siege of Kut, and the Velvet Underground.
Published on Saturday, 12th December 2015.
Suicide bombings in Amman; a massacre in East Timor; and the fall of the Taliban
Published on Saturday, 14th November 2015.
A Hollywood star dies of Aids, plus Buena Vista Social Club, Danish cartoons and Karaoke.
Published on Saturday, 3rd October 2015.
Korea split after World War Two, the penal colony Devil's Island and Harry Potter
Published on Saturday, 15th August 2015.
