History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
In May 1980 Communist China allowed capitalist activity for the first time.
It was a father and son team of Italian cosmetic surgeons who created liposuction.
In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison.
After enduring years of slaughter during WW1, French army units finally mutinied
In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the USSR, a civil war erupted in Tajikistan.
The legendary photographic cooperative, Magnum, was founded 70 years ago
How the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo challenged Argentina's military rulers.
During the Bosnian war of the early 1990's, thousands of women were raped.
On April 26th 2005, Syrian forces finally pulled out of Lebanon after almost 30 years.
The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness.
Bulgaria's brutal policy of forced assimilation against its Turkish minority in the 1980s
In post-WW2 Japan, Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin.
When it began sending images back to Nasa they were out of focus - Mike Weiss fixed it
Eugene Chaplin remembers his famous father's love-hate relationship with the USA
In April 1966 thousands of African artists and performers gathered in Senegal
Hear from the American who survived being shot down in his plane over the Amazon jungle
NTV was the only nationwide independent TV channel in Russia. It was taken over in 2001.
In April 1977, US disabled activists occupied a government building for nearly a month.
In 1969 Sikh bus drivers in Wolverhampton won the right to wear turbans on duty.
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.
In the 1970s Ethiopia's military regime launched a brutal campaign of repression
Israa Abd El Fattah was one of the first Egyptian activists to use Facebook for protests.
America declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917
In April 1987 Princess Diana opened the UK's first purpose built HIV Aids unit
