Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions

Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, on being put on trial among other stories

• 51 mins

Contested islands and Miss World protests

How four islands complicate the post World War Two relationship between Japan and Russia

• 50 mins

Referendums and Teletubbies

Max Person presents a collection of this weeks Witness history episodes

• 51 mins

District Six and daredevils

The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in South Africa

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90 years of the BBC World Service

The BBC Caribbean Service and broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

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Food

Stories about the history of food, including the creation of ciabatta bread in Italy

• 49 mins

Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels

Russian rebels and the most bizarre football match of all time

• 50 mins

Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers

Plastics in oceans were first discovered over fifty years ago

• 51 mins

Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson

Horsemeat found in burgers and the aeroplane which safely landed on water in New York

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The death penalty and broadcasting bans

A prison guard and a hangman discuss capital punishment among other stories

• 51 mins

Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce

The first black music station in Europe and why Czechoslovakia split into two states

• 50 mins

Popes

Stories about the history of the papacy, including Benedict XVI's resignation

• 51 mins

'Hot Autumn' and Tutankhamun

Workers' strikes in Italy and 100 years since the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber

• 51 mins

Riots in Mauritius and the Queen 'jumping out of a helicopter'

Ethnic tensions in Mauritius and the Queen's 2012 Olympic wow moment

• 52 mins

Pink triangles and political assassinations

Gay men in Nazi concentration camps and the murder of Serbia's Prime Minister

• 51 mins

International Women's Day

A compilation of stories celebrating women who made history

• 51 mins

The Invasion of Iraq

Stories marking 20 years since the American led invasion of Iraq in March 2003

• 51 mins

Film and cinema around the world

The longest running Indian film and freeing Free Willy

• 50 mins

The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley

Vietnam's manicure godfather and how Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley

• 50 mins

Escaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba

One woman's journey to escape Eritrea and how Zumba was invented by accident

• 51 mins

Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

The unearthing of a mass grave in Ukraine, and the Boston bombing in 2013

• 51 mins

The history of dogs

Inventing the labradoodle, the first dog in space and the world's first therapy dog

• 50 mins

Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala

Trinidadian Althea McNish designs for Queen Elizabeth II and the Met Gala's popularity

• 52 mins

The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor

The removal of a symbolic royal stone and the former child King turned Prime Minister

• 51 mins

World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'

The Allies' campaign in North Africa and the last flight out of a Hong Kong airport

• 51 mins

Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes

• 51 mins

Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown

A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru

• 51 mins

Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest

• 51 mins

Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash

Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada

• 51 mins

Amazing photographs and the people who took them

Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa

• 51 mins