Witness

The story of a doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

It's sixty seven years since the first ever strike by Aborigines working in virtual slavery in Australia. We've been listening to some of the strikers recorded by film-maker David Noakes in 1987. All of those featured are now deceased.

Hear from John Lewis, the youngest speaker on the podium alongside Martin Luther King that day.

In 1962, one woman's campaign for a termination split America and galvanised the campaign for abortion to be legalised.

It's 130 years since the Indonesian volcano exploded causing one of the world's biggest natural disasters.

In 1992, tens of thousands of anti-corruption demonstrators forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness after a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia.

How a leading opposition politician in the Philippines was gunned down moments after returning from exile.

45 years ago, Soviet tanks rolled into the capital of Czechoslovakia to crush a brief period of freedom of expression. This programme was first broadcast in 2010.

In 1990, the Lockwood family were held as "human shields" in Iraq in the run up to the First Gulf War. Their son, Stuart, was famously paraded on tv next to Saddam Hussein.

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the notoriously difficult director on classic films such as Dr Strangelove.

How a massive car bomb caused death and destruction in a small town in Northern Ireland.

How East Germany claimed American planes had opened up a new front in the Cold War by dropping beetles over their potato fields in the early 1950s.

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born to flee Germany in the 1930s.