History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2017.
In June 1997 a devastating eruption took place on the Caribbean island of Montserrat
Captain Nabih El Suhaimat fought to defend East Jerusalem from the Israelis
In 1967, Israel captured the whole of Jerusalem on the third day of the Six Day War
The Democrat Senator and Presidential hopeful died on June 6th 1968 after being shot.
The story of the Pakistani boy forced into bonded labour at the age of four.
In June 1972 Sally Priesand became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the USA.
In May 1986, a small group of musicians staged the first charity rock concert in the USSR
Actor Barbara Leigh-Hunt on her role in one of the most controversial Hitchcock movies
In 1968 Dr Bindeshwar Pathak began his mission to improve toilet facilities for the poor.
In 1979 Canadians began a revolutionary scheme to aid thousands of Indochinese refugees
In May 1998 Pakistan responded to an Indian nuclear test with an explosion of its own
In May 1975 one of Latin America's leading young poets was shot dead in El Salvador.
When Ireland's banks went on strike in 1970, people cashed their cheques in pubs.
In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported its Roma citizens to Transdniestria
The Taiwanese pop singer who became a superstar in communist China
The young woman, killed at a protest in 2009, who became a symbol for opposition in Iran
A Broadway musical has made an 18th century American politician famous once more.
In 1954 the US Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
How a New York housewife started a worldwide weight loss business in May 1963.
How one of America's most controversial politicians was shot while running for president.
French minister Maurice Papon went on trial for helping the Nazis to deport French Jews
In 1976, unknown Californian wines beat top French wines in a blind wine tasting in Paris
In 1977 a US government body first warned Americans that their diet was killing them.
In 1973, the most successful TV spy series ever to be broadcast in the USSR, went on air.
