History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
In 1977 the Nigerian military stormed the musician's compound in Lagos.
In the autumn of 1973 a Bronx DJ held a ground-breaking party.
Jamaica is best known for Reggae music, but before Reggae, came Ska.
In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony
We hear from farmer Michael Eavis, who began the music festival in 1970
In 1978, Iran's top musicians took a stand against the Monarchy
The story of the great South African singer who spent 30 years in exile
Country music legend Willie Nelson holds the first benefit concert for American farmers
How the Pakistani Qawali singer became an international music sensation..
The Monkees were the world's first 'manufactured' boy band - created especially for TV.
Millions of Egyptians mourned the death of the legendary singer in 1975
The English singer, actor and playwright was invited to do a show in Las Vegas
E.T Mensah's Highlife music took Africa by storm in the 1950s
The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .
Russia's first radio DJ, Seva Novgorodsev, went on air at the height of the Cold War
How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.
In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.
In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.
The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.
How a Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War descended into chaos in 1970.
On 21 Aug 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines
In the summer of 1988 thousands of political prisoners were suddenly executed in Iran.
A clash between a religious commune and the locals leads to the mass poisoning of a town.
In August 1915 the Scottish architect was arrested on suspicion of spying.
