Witness History Episodes Available now
Rwanda at the Paralympics
In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians
India's campaign for disability rights
How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians
Britain's little blue disability car
For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport
Helen Keller
The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world
When the Egyptian president went to Israel
Why Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in November 1977
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The story of a radical book about women’s health and sexuality.
America's WW2 refugee camp
How nearly a thousand Jewish refugees were housed in an old fort near New York during WW2
The world's first woman premier
In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister
Captured by Somali pirates
Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008
The 'good enough' mother
Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.
