The story of our times told by the people who were there.
The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry
How a huge cache of papers showed the true extent of torture across 1970s South America.
In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.
Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.
How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war
In 1912, Britain's top palaeontologists were hoaxed by a "missing link" in human evolution
The story of the last US space mission to the moon 40 years ago
In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make WMD
In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans.
The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964
On December 25th 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceau艧escu were executed by firing squad.
40 years ago the US launched its heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War.
In 1980 thousands died in the Nigerian city of Kano in an uprising by an Islamic sect.
In December 1999 a young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show.
It is 40 years since a video game was invented which would change the way we play.
