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Witness History — 1000 episodes
Norway’s teacher resistance in World War Two
Firefighter: Surviving the 9/11 North Tower collapse
The weather report that changed the date of D-Day
Bayeux Tapestry: the lost Nazi archive
The 'moving' statue of Ballinspittle
Surviving the Long March
Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
‘Genius’ sci-fi writer Octavia E Butler
Making Turkish Star Wars
How the Star Wars toys were created
The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73
Hurricane Luis hits Antigua
Peace People: The Northern Ireland campaign group born from tragedy
Auschwitz: An SS officer’s photo album
Uruguay's water referendum
Defeating the screwworm
'I created the duck cake from Bluey'
Canada's controversial resettlement programme
Asha Bhosle: The world's most recorded artist
The tortoise and the hippo
Kenya's power-sharing deal
The last of the Mau Mau fighters
Treetops: The day a princess became a queen
Finding the den of the Tsavo man-eaters
The origins of the all-inclusive holiday
When Taiwan’s ‘White Terror’ ended
Ashley Kriel: South Africa's anti-apartheid 'Che Guevara'
The first carbon offset
City of God: The film that reshaped global cinema
The cellist who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau
'I organised the first Comic Con'
Sweden's summer shutdown
The last execution by garrote: Salvador Puig Antich
The immigrant workers who refused to pay rent in 1970s France
The making of Oasis’ Wonderwall
Restoring the Statue of Liberty
KCOR: The first Spanish-language radio station in the US
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Hawaii becomes the 50th American state
Rata de dos patas: Mexico’s famous insult song
WW1: The Battle of the Somme
Brexit: Ireland watches the vote unfold
The discovery of Lyme disease
The discovery of Mungo Man
Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march
50 years since the Soweto Uprising
The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia
Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king
The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters
Picasso and the Surrealist summer
Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist
Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island
The creation of Inspector Montalbano
The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre
Australia's first Big Thing
The first Irish language television channel
Recording the Eichmann interviews
Filming Titanic in Mexico
I escaped Mexico's deadly gas explosion
I fought for Mexico’s indigenous women to get political equality
Mexico: The election that ended one‑party rule
The Mexican song that captivated lovers during World War II
Canada's worst E.coli outbreak
Montenegro votes for independence
Exposing King Albert II's secret child
Poland’s underground newspaper
The Sami protest song that made Eurovision history
Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil
Norway's WWII railway sabotage plot
Nuns killed in Algeria
The origins of World Press Freedom Day
Inside the Cuban thaw
Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis
The Tabasco floods
The clean-up of Chernobyl
Canada's war in the woods
Europe’s long drought of 2011
Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam
Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'
The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia
The assassination of Thomas Sankara
Roddy Doyle writes Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The creation of My Little Pony
The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity
Khula Manch, the victory rally
Hitler's teeth
Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art
Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The first commercially successful electronic cigarette
Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica
New Nordic cuisine
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck
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Echo and the elephants
Anthony Bourdain's 'Don't Eat Before Reading This'
The first Great Wall of China trek
How a Maasai community in Kenya overcame a deadly drought
The only Pope to visit New Zealand
The reunification of Germany
Women's rights in independent Tunisia
The 'Cyprus Emergency'
Oslo's anti-racism demonstration
The L'Amicale Four
The nuclear mango deal
Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies
How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation
I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth
My father directed Seven Samurai
Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film
The invention of the mobility scooter
India’s first nuclear test
Portugal’s worst train disaster
Elvis visits Scotland
Sweden’s diplomatic freeze with the USA
Syria's secret library
Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial
The Japanese invasion of Malaya
The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale
The storming of Spain's parliament
The playboy spy who inspired James Bond
'I taught the Dalai Lama'
The photo which symbolised Argentina’s resistance
Toxic shock syndrome and tampon safety
World War Two’s Shetland Bus
The flooding of Florence
The Mont Blanc Tunnel
Gina Lollobrigida interviews Fidel Castro
When Pink Floyd played in Venice
The discovery of nerve growth factor
My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss
Austria's wine scandal
Jimmy Carter visits Cuba
Cuba's Mariel boatlift
The 'Jugroom Fort' rescue mission
Ötzi: The Iceman of Bolzano
The Kaohsiung Incident
Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
The liberation of Auschwitz
John Logie Baird invents television
Agatha Christie: best-selling novelist of all time
The Challenger space shuttle tragedy
Operation Mincemeat
The Irish priest who built an airport
Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
Afghan Star
The deadly Vargas mudslides in Venezuela
Creating Cluedo
The creation of the modern kitchen
Brain: PC virus
Battle of Gallipoli
Sazae-san: World's longest-running cartoon
Tracey Emin’s unmade bed
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
The Hillsborough disaster
South Africa's luxury train
The American Freedom Train
The longest musical composition
Radio Free Europe
SMS: The invention of text messaging
Creating the board game Catan
Tamagotchi is born
How the hoverboard was created
Inventing Play-Doh
The invention of Jenga
The first television opera
When Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas at an English pub
When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan
India's disability law
How NFL tickets caught fugitives
The Paris climate agreement
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
The discovery of the coelacanth
Dismaland: Banksy's dystopian theme park
The Balcombe Street IRA siege
How Lagos Fashion Week began
Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war
Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war
Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria
West Africa fights back against Boko Haram
Ravi and George
India goes to the UN
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
How the Bosnian war ended
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
The death of Franco
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Bataclan attack in Paris
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Birth of the G7
Breaking the sound barrier
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
The ‘father of e-books’
The creation of Miffy
President Clinton is impeached
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Srebrenica massacre
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Death of a priest
The man who invented the scratch card
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
My aunt created The Moomins
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
How BRICS got its name
Japan surrenders in Beijing
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
The home video war
The acquittal of OJ Simpson
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
The Cradock Four killings
Guinea stadium massacre
The secretary who made millions from her typos
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
The start of Scouting
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
The Aswan High Dam
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
9/11: The generosity of Gander
The story behind The Peter Principle book
The Enabling Act
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
‘How I sold my clothes and created a $5 billion Vinted empire’
World's first womb transplant baby
The Chindits
The founding of USAID
Discovering the Titanic
John Lennon's final headline concerts
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Creating CAPTCHA
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Geneva Conventions
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Spot the Dog
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Borobudur Temple
The Santa Cruz Massacre
1965 Singaporean independence
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Nagasaki bomb
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
A Chorus Line
The invention of Kevlar
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Italo disco
The 'Turbot War'
Greece’s debt crisis
The Iran nuclear deal
The start of Voice of America
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Back to the Future
Drill, baby, drill!
Cecil the lion
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Italian happiness trains
The opening of the Medellin Metro
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
The Czech Freedom Train
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Making Jaws
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Civil rights swim-in
Charleston church shooting
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
The Schengen Agreement
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
The world’s largest model train set
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
The Battle of the Beanfield
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
The Tragically Hip's final gig
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
The founding of Magnum Photos
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Intervision Song Contest
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
VE Day celebrations
Sinking of the Lusitania
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Ten countries join the EU in one night
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
The death of Adolf Hitler
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
The creation of YouTube
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
The origin of World Book Day
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Oklahoma City bombing
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
The Reichstag fire
The UN retreat from Somalia
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
The invention of superglue
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
The Germanwings plane crash
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
The historic handshake in space
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
First spacewalk
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
The Capitol Crawl
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
The invention of GPS
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
The Great Toyota War
The US invasion of Panama
The invention of the shopping trolley
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
The Nellie massacre
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Assassination of Malcolm X
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Bo: The death of a language
The world's longest kiss
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Eisenhower's farewell address
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
The first global case of coral bleaching
Cuban blindness
Oradour massacre
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
English TV lessons in China go primetime
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
The Baltic chain protest
The Milltown Cemetery attack
The launch of Windows 95
Replacing the Panchen Lama
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Hunting the Unabomber
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Kobe earthquake
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The invention of the hotel key card
Charlie Hebdo attack
Marie Kondo
Creating Alexa
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
'Kimchi war'
Chef to five presidents
When instant noodles came to India
'I created MasterChef'
Australian republic referendum
Poland's bleak Christmas
Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Surviving Andes plane crash
Peshawar school massacre
The birth of reggaeton
The handover of the Panama Canal
The Purple Heart Warriors
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
The ‘Three Marias’
The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
The end of the US HIV travel ban
The deepest man-made hole in the world
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
The Iran-Contra Affair
Creation of the UFC
Lord of the Flies
Handover of Macau
The Siege of Yarmouk
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
German naturists
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
India's capsule coal mine rescue
How Greece got rid of their king
The Pakistan mountain massacre
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
The Shah of Iran's party
In exile from Iran
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Brazil’s electronic voting
The Ken Burns Effect
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
The Sunflower Movement
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
How the QR code was invented
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Eliza: When chatbots started
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
The Estonia ferry disaster
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Designing the Google logo
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
India’s plague outbreak
Camouflaging Leningrad
The invention of the CT scanner
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
The woman who spoke to the space station
Guatemala's disappeared
Waris Dirie
The writer of Mary Poppins
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Spain's La Tomatina
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
India’s first female bartender
Nazis in Egypt
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
The last ever Olympic art competition
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
The first televised US presidential debate
President Richard Nixon resigns
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
The Situation Room photograph
Ice Bucket Challenge
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Building the Moscow Metro
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
The 1924 Paris Olympics
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
The missing people of Cyprus
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Italy's 'poison ships'
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
How the air fryer was invented
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Georgia’s political crisis
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
I designed Hello Kitty
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
The first mega cruise ship
The beginning of Benidorm
How Cancún became a tourist destination
The first budget transatlantic flights
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Kielland disaster
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Saving lives on D-Day
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
The Flint water crisis
The first Aboriginal MP
The first ever quintuplets
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
How Air Jordans were created
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Baghdad heavy metal
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
The creation of the state of Israel
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
How a billion Indians got a digital ID
The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Friends: The making of a smash hit
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
How to win friends and influence people
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Deadly Everest avalanche
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Bonus: The Black 14
ESweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
The Bluetooth story
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
The man who invented the seat belt
Fifty years of Abba
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
The founding of Nato
Britain's first beach for nudists
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Wham! in China
Discovering the Terracotta Army
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Paraguay adopts its second language
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
MH370: The plane that vanished
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
French child evacuees of World War Two
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
The lost Czech scrolls
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Russia annexes Crimea
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Columbus Lighthouse
Trans murder in Honduras
Icelandic women's strike
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
The Juliet letters
Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
A young mother saved from death by stoning
Queen of the 'fro
First internet cafe
The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
Silenced by the Vatican
Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?
The Hungarian footballer executed for love
Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'
Ibadan Zoo
Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison
The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
The hunger-striking Bolivian president
Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
The first World Laughter Day
Russian ballerina defects to the west
The mystery of France's lost king
The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
The Hindenburg airship disaster
The invention of the wingsuit
Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
The disputed history of pad Thai
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
Inventing Nutella
'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
The assassination of King Faisal
Tsunami devastates Samoa
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Murder of the Romanovs
The release of DOOM
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
La Haine: The film that shocked France
World's first solar-heated home
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
The bird that defied extinction
Cabbage Patch Kids
The Mumbai attacks
The Paris heatwave
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
The invention of bubble tea
The independence of Zambia
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
The Bolivian Water War
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
The invention of the EpiPen
The hippo and the tortoise
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Debbie McGee in Iran
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Inventing the black box
The discovery of the HIV virus
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
The 1993 MAD hijack
The 1980 Turkey coup
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Osmondmania
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Mexico’s murdered women
Rana Plaza building collapse
Cambodian peace walk
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Protectors of the Amazon
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Nigeria strikes oil
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
The oil crisis of 1973
The first cat cafe
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia
Concorde's first flight
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster
The year of the vuvuzela
Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack
The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'
Fighting for legal abortion in Italy
Nazi eugenics
The Ramallah concert
The siege at the Church of the Nativity
Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa
Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed
Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal
Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup
Organising Chile's 1973 military coup
Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh
Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'
Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
The Bristol bus boycott
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
The first Rose of Tralee
How electricity came to rural Ireland
Easter Rising in Ireland
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
Judy Garland: The final shows
Returning Benin Bronzes
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
The Great Train Robbery
Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
Dinosaur in court
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
Birth of a new language
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Brain: A personal computer virus
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
The birth of Barbie
Japan surrenders in China
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Creating the first emoji
When disposable nappies were invented
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Invention of the ballpoint pen
A right royal night out
When tourism came to the Maldives
The National Health Service begins
Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
The trial of John Demjanjuk
I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Sampoong department store disaster
First reports of Ebola
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
My dad played golf on the moon
The Empire Windrush arrives
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Uprising in East Germany
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
1955 Le Mans disaster
Last communist march before Hitler
Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
Inuit children taken from families
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
Tragedy on Everest
Mallory on Everest
Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest
Edmund Hillary conquers Everest
The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world
Trying to unite Africa
Chasing the world’s biggest tornado
Fikret Alić
EThe sergeants' coup in Suriname
Pippi Longstocking
Creating New Zealand's national walking trail
The Dambusters
German child evacuees of World War Two
Singapore executes Filipina maid
World War II victory in North Africa
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak
The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’
United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny
Last King of Bulgaria
The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell
Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation
The king under the car park
The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation
The Met Gala goes global
Guatemala's outspoken bishop
Discovering the secrets of DNA
Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'
The Russian man who pretended to be a dog
Smoky the World War II dog hero
Roselle the 9/11 guide dog
The world's first labradoodle
The first dog in space
Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
EI led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
Mass grave at Sernyky
The universal recycling symbol
Emperor Tewodros II
The Good Friday Agreement referendum
Beto Perez: 'I created Zumba by accident'
Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues
Pan-European picnic
Escaping national service in Eritrea
EA Brief History of Time
The first photo sent from a phone
Godfather of manicures
How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley
The windmill that revolutionised wind power
Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'
The man who lived in an airport
DDLJ: India’s longest running movie
Alcatraz: The strangest escape
Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story
Iraq War: US security guards killed my son
Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
Iraq War: Refugees escaping
Iraq War: The beginning
From a goddess to a graduate
Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
First all-women peacekeeping unit
Mexico's first female presidential hopeful
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
The museum at the end of the world
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Wounded Knee siege
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Families interned in WW2 China
The invention of Semtex
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
First winter ascent of Everest
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
'I developed Pokémon'
First Danish queen for 600 years
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
The Pope and Jews
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
How a Pope is chosen
The first black music station in Europe
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Palestine Post bombing
Invention of the MP3
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Smolensk air disaster
Japanese death row guard
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Kosovo’s house schools
Europe's horse meat scandal
Miracle on the Hudson
World’s first tidal power station
Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute
Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line
Dutch North Sea flood
Plastics in oceans
Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest
The man Pinochet wanted dead
When America banned silicone breast implants
Arctic African
One team in Tallinn
The birth of the Slow Food Movement
Inventing instant noodles
Malta's bread strike
Inventing Chicken Manchurian
Creating ciabatta bread
Chile mine rescue
Grozny siege
Colombia's 'false positives' killings
The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Soviet fashionista
Returning to District Six
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Mongolian revolution
Creating Teletubbies
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Miss World protest
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Mombasa terror attacks
How cat's eyes were invented
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
When Sweden’s roads went right
First women’s minister in Iran
The invention of the seat belt
Qatar's first female published author
First Emirati female teacher
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
The child evacuees of World War Two
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
First rape crisis centres in the US
Polynesian Panthers
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Albania’s Stalinist purges
The Little Black Book survival guide
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Theatre siege in Moscow
The Iranian Revolution and women
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Cuba's boxing ban
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Disney animators' strike
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
The Harder They Come
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
The release of Gilad Shalit