The Death of Steve Biko
The anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, died in a police cell in 1977. The South...
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Witness: Archive 2012
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20 of 255 episodesJohn Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin, a white journalist, dyed his skin black to experience segregation in America's Deep South. John Howard Griffin wrote a...
The Los Angeles Riots
In May 1992 the people of South Central Los Angeles took to the streets in fury at police brutality. They were angry that Los Angeles police...
The Stolen Generation
Debra Hocking was taken from her indigenous Australian family as a baby and was placed with a foster family. It was part of a government pol...
African Troops During WWII
During World War II, African soldiers were a vital part of the Allied forces. Many of them were sent to Burma as reinforcements for the Brit...
Pong and the birth of the computer game
It is 40 years since a video game was invented which would change the way we play. An on screen version of table tennis, to begin with Pong...
Big Brother - the beginning of reality TV
In December 1999 a young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show. It was to be the start of a global television phenomenon....
Maitatsine
In December 1980, thousands were killed in the Nigerian city of Kano following an uprising by an Islamic sect. The sect was led by a radical...
Vietnam War - Christmas bombing campaign
40 years ago the Americans launched their heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War. It was to become known as the Christmas bombing ca...
The Execution of the Ceauşescus
Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were executed by firing squad on 25 December 1989. It was the end of one of the most repressive regimes in forme...
Dusty Plays South Africa
In 1964 the British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa. She said she would only play to racially mixed audienc...
Mad cow disease - CJD
In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans. The British government introduced a ban on beef on th...
Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction
In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make weapons of mass destruction. United Nations weapons inspectors...
The last men on the moon
It is 40 years since the last moon mission returned to earth. One of the three astronauts on board was geologist Harrison Schmitt. He looks...
Piltdown Man
In 1912, Britain's top paleontologists were tricked by one of the biggest hoaxes in scientific history - a skull thought to be the "missing...
The M Room
How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war. Ninety-three-year-old Fritz Lustig, a refugee fr...
Discovering Cleopatra's Palace
Twenty years ago a former economist from France, Franck Goddio, began underwater excavations which unearthed a 2000 year old palace belongin...
Marsha Hunt and the 1960s
In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London. Although Marsha Hunt says she couldn't sing, she ended up a s...
Archive of Terror
In 1992, a Paraguayan human rights activist called Martin Almada discovered a huge cache of documents in a run-down police station. The file...
The Origin of Nollywood
The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry. It was called "Living in Bondage". We speak to one of...
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