History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
Rabbits infested huge swathes of the Australian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s.
When Rodney Fox survived the jaws of a Great White Shark it inspired him to study them.
Millions of African locusts invaded the Caribbean having flown 5,000 kilometres non-stop.
A doctor working in Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon recalls the massacre there
Karl-Heinz Borchardt was arrested at the age of 18 by East German secret police.
A group of hippies occupied a sixty-room mansion in central London in September 1969.
Panicked run on bank signals the start of the financial crisis in the UK
When West African tin miners unearthed evidence of a lost civilization
The last man to be executed by guillotine in France was a Tunisian, Hamida Djandoubi.
When the principal singer collapsed, a member of the audience took over his role.
Eight scientists sealed themselves inside a giant greenhouse for an ambitious experiment.
How two girls' photos convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that fairies exist.
A survivor recalls the Kendal train crash in September 1957 when more than 200 died.
Diana's brother Earl Spencer remembers the emotional speech he made at her funeral.
Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash whilst being chased by paparazzi
The online auction site first went live in 1995.
Animal Farm was an allegory about the dangers of Soviet communism and of Joseph Stalin.
The summer of 1983 saw a major breakthrough in the treatment of facial deformities.
The racial disturbances in west London which shocked Britain in 1958.
A home for asylum seekers was set on fire in the German city of Rostock in August 1992
Veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1
How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.