When Uruguay introduced a pioneering smoking ban, the toppling of Europe’s longest-surviving authoritarian regime and the disappearance of flight MH370. Show more

Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate, the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius and honky-tonk star Winifred Atwell who was Sir Elton John’s hero. Show more

Discovering the Terracotta Army, the man who modernised the Chinese language and when British pop group Wham became the first western act to play in China. Show more

The 75th anniversary of Nato, Britain's Mirpuri migration, the origins of the Heimlich Manoeuvre and 30 years since the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. Show more

It has been 50 years since Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, so we're exploring Swedish history. Max Pearson presents a collection of Witness History episodes. Show more

It's 30 years since Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, was stolen from the national gallery in Oslo, Norway. Max Pearson explores the history of art heists in the 20th Century. Show more

It's 10 years since West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic started; the deadliest outbreak of the disease in history. Show more

It’s been thirty years since the first fully democratic elections in South Africa, so this week Max Pearson presents Witness History stories about South Africa. Show more

The man who has dedicated his life to finding the victims of Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay, the Channel tunnel and the story behind a popular self-help book. Show more

The independence movement in French Polynesia, and how the FBI tracked down ‘Queen of Cuba’ Ana Montes. Show more

How more than one billion Indians were given a unique digital ID in the world's largest biometric project, and the story behind Princess Diana's iconic picture at the Taj Mahal. Show more

The Afghan coup of 1973, TV's first interracial kiss, scouts in the Warsaw uprising, plus the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960. Show more

The fate of Rome's Jews during World War Two. Plus, the Cairo Fire, the last American diplomat in Cuba, Russia's first Gay Pride march, and the dangers of American football. Show more

The uprising in South Korea, the assasination of Rajiv Ghandi, the first Papal visit to a synagogue, saving Russian soldiers in Chechnya, and student riots in Indonesia. Show more

Legendary Singer Victor Jara's wife on Pinochet's coup; the Alabama church bombing in 1963; a US pilot shot down bombing Syrian positions in '83; Indira Gandhi's Project Tiger. Show more

Gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds, secret Middle East peace talks, plus Duke Ellington plays in Kabul, and on the trail of Eva Peron's embalmed corpse. Show more

The life and death of the West African leader; tunnelling under the Berlin Wall; and how exotic dancer Josephine Baker wowed 1920s Paris. Show more

Nelson Mandela's trial in 1963. Plus Vietnam's Boat People, the American nuns murdered in 80s El Salvador, and the story of Prohibition. Show more

How Russians and Americans worked together on a new era in space exploration; plus East Timorese fighters, an assassination in Spain and the kidnap of Frank Sinatra's son. Show more