Witness History Episodes Available now
Kobe earthquake
On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford sought help for addiction
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
In 1933, President Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to drag the US out of depression
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
In 2015, ship spotter Yörük Işık saw Russian military trucks on a ship going to Syria
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
The invention of the hotel key card
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card
Charlie Hebdo attack
On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at a satirical magazine in France
Marie Kondo
In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo's first book was published.
Creating Alexa
In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
In 1950, Klaus Fuchs admitted passing top secret nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
