History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
3 sisters in the Dominican Republic were beaten to death on the orders of the dictator
How coal miners in France went from post-war heroes to pariahs
In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered plans to overthrow British rule
How a Kenyan woman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, first raised orphaned baby African elephants
In Nov 2001 a group of British tourists was arrested in Greece and charged with spying.
Director Hal Prince remembers the hit musical opening on Broadway in November 1966
In Nov 1996 leading ornithologist Tony Silva was convicted of smuggling endangered birds.
In 1995 one of Madagascar's most historic sites was destroyed by fire
In November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in Dili.
The publication of Salman Rushdie's book outraged many Muslims around the world
In 1962 Monty Norman wrote the music for the first James Bond film, Dr No.
The widow of the famous folk singer recalls the night that changed her husband's life.
Writer and musician Michael Lydon recalls the birth of an iconic magazine.
On 8 November 1991, a competition which judged artificial intelligence was held.
In 2004 a child sex abuse trial on a remote island in the Pacific shocked the world.
Photographer Dickey Chapelle was the first woman war reporter to be killed in Vietnam
In October 1990 the Mexican poet and essayist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A former communist Red Guard recalls his role in China's Cultural Revolution.
How an African American soldier captured in the Korean war, decided to settle in China
How a performance in London made the reputation of the world's greatest escape artist
In 1965 French agents helped kidnap and disappear the Moroccan dissident in Paris
In 1986 London's Stock Exchange underwent one of the biggest shake-ups in its history.
In October 1956 Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule.
Veterans talk about their experience of 'shell shock' in recordings from the 成人论坛 archive
