History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
In 1961 a new generation of comic-book super heroes was launched in the US
On 21st October 1966, tragedy struck a village in Wales when a landslide crushed a school
The story of the great French conceptualist artist Marcel Duchamp and his art
During the 1950s in Kenya, rebels known as the Mau Mau were fighting against British rule
How a controversial Catholic priest had millions of listeners in the 1930s.
The row over hi-tech spying in America's new diplomatic building in the USSR
How an advertising campaign for vacuum cleaners went badly wrong.
In October 1990, Syrian jets ousted their main opponent in Lebanon ending the civil war
In 1988 Chileans voted to end the brutal 15-year military rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
In 1918, more than fifty million people died in a global flu pandemic.
The dissident poet was released from a labour camp on the eve of a US-Soviet summit
In October 1966, the Beach Boys released their "pocket symphony" Good Vibrations.
In 1994, a TV programme in Northern Ireland lifted the lid on clerical child sex abuse.
On October 6th 1976 Thai security forces opened fire on student demonstrators in Bangkok.
In October 1982 seven people in the US died after taking painkillers laced with cyanide.
In 1946, a chance encounter between two men launched the high IQ club, Mensa
He was one of Britain's most admired 20th century painters. His daughters remember him.
On September 29th 1957 there was a major nuclear accident in the Soviet Union.
In 1971 inmates rioted and seized control of the US jail, taking guards hostage
In the dying years of Apartheid, the white government was desperate to keep control.
During WWII, Britain deported some civilians classed as 'enemy aliens' to Australia.
In September 1726, a woman called Mary Toft claimed she was giving birth to rabbits.
On September 22nd 1996 an Australian doctor helped a cancer sufferer to die.
In 2006 Brazil passed the ground-breaking "Maria da Penha" law to tackle domestic abuse.
