From the British Library in the heart of London, BBC presenter Tanya Beckett introduces us to the first round-up of history in 2015.

Witness speaks to the first man to surf waves four storeys high on the Californian coast and the Spanish MP who witnessed an attempted coup in parliament.

A special edition from Delhi featuring five India-focused films. Witness hears from the Bollywood actress who starred as the Goddess Sita in India's most watched TV epic. Show more

Tanya Beckett introduces this month's round-up of history. Witness speaks to the man who survived the 1995 Sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway system.

The father of a Nascar driver killed in an accident tells Witness about how his death changed the safety rules of the sport.

Witness speaks to the mother who gave birth to India's billionth baby, and the dancer who performed for Louis Armstrong on his trip to Ghana in the 1950s.

This edition of Witness features a photojournalist who was in Tehran at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral, and a leader of the civil rights struggle in the US.

From London's Olympic Park, Azi Farni tells the story of five extraordinary sporting moments, including the man who persuaded Pele to join a little-known American soccer team. Show more

Seventy years since the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, Witness speaks to a Japanese doctor who saw the bomb fall.

In this special edition of Witness from Mumbai, Yogita Limaye introduces five witnesses who have experienced Indian history first hand.

Forty five years since tens of thousands of women took over the centre of New York in a march to demand equal rights, Witness speaks to Carole de Saram, who was there.

Tanya Beckett looks at the day that Danish Jews were secretly warned of Nazi plans to send them to concentration camps.

Witness brings together accounts from five people who have witnessed extraordinary moments in American history. Show more

We hear from the British scientist who helped alert the world to an environmental tragedy, and one of the thousands of Danish Jews who escaped the Holocaust.

In the final Witness of 2015, Tanya Beckett brings us a round-up of the most striking films of the last 12 months.

Tanya Beckett introduces us to five more extraordinary moments in history, including a Cuban who watched as Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces swept into Havana in January 1959.

Tanya Beckett hears from the British fisherman who stood up to Icelandic gunboats, and Judit Polgar remembers her famous chess victory over Garry Kasparov.

Razia Iqbal presents five first-hand stories from recent history. These include a remarkable account of the shooting down of an Iranian passenger plane by a US warship in 1988. Show more

This month, we meet the man who saved the dancing bears of Bulgaria a survivor of the Burmese uprising of 1988 and the engineer who tunnelled through Mont Blanc. Show more

More accounts of the recent past told by people who were there.