The early days of HIV/Aids

The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus

• 10 mins

World's First Environment Conference

The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit

• 10 mins

Imprisonment in Syria

As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime

• 10 mins

Attack on the Osirak reactor

It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq

• 10 mins

Mixed race marriage victory in US

How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US

• 9 mins

Italian internees

When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned

• 10 mins

OJ Simpson car chase

The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994

• 10 mins

Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper

• 10 mins

East German Uprising

In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

• 10 mins

Nureyev defects to the West

On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union

• 10 mins

Rape of Nanjing

How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937

• 10 mins

Australian evacuee

During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs

• 10 mins

The Voyage of the Empire Windrush

The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948

• 9 mins

Operation Barbarossa

An eyewitness account of the launch of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union

• 10 mins

Fermat's Last Theorem

Andrew Wiles on solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries

• 10 mins

Montserrat volcano

In June 1997 the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat

• 10 mins

President Kennedy's Visit to Ireland

President Kennedy's emotional visit to Ireland shortly before his assassination in 1963

• 10 mins

Elian Gonzalez

The six-year-old boy caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between Miami and Havana

• 10 mins

Secret war in Yemen

In the 1960s, British mercenaries joined the fighting in Yemen's civil war

• 10 mins

Camaron - Flamenco Legend

How a gypsy singer called Camaron de la Isla revolutionised the world of flamenco

• 10 mins

Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon

In 1975 he became the first African-American man to win the tennis tournament.

• 10 mins

Ron Kovic - Ex US Marine and peace activist

How ex-US Marine Ron Kovic became a peace activist after being paralysed in Vietnam

• 10 mins

Prince Charles and Princess Diana in the USA

In 1985 the Royal couple made their first joint visit to America

• 10 mins

Piper Alpha

We hear from a survivor from the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster that killed 167 people

• 10 mins

Bradford riots

It is 10 years since riots engulfed the city of Bradford in the North of England

• 10 mins

The space shuttle

It is more than 30 years since the launch of the first space shuttle

• 10 mins

Boycott of The Sun newspaper

How the people of Liverpool boycotted Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper in the UK

• 10 mins

The Srebrenica massacre

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb fighters killed thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica

• 10 mins

Battle of Britain

A Battle of Britain pilot reflects on being shot down and almost drowning in the sea

• 10 mins

The Crusaders capture Jerusalem

The tale of the momentous and bloody capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099

• 10 mins