Witness History Episodes Available now
The Good Friday Agreement
The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.
IRA gun-running in America
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981
The Grand Hotel Bombing
The IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.
Bloody Sunday
How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972
British troops in Northern Ireland
The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.
A Cold War love affair
The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The story of Coretta Scott King’s campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The story of the famous psychology study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, of 1971
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
How a Dutch engineer invented a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution in the 1960s.
The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
