History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940
The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.
How six English farmworkers defied the authorities to form a trade union in 1834.
In August 1945 Korea is split along the 38th parallel.
The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.
In 1996 struggling author JK Rowling finds a publisher at last for wizard Harry Potter.
A convict's experience of the notorious French penal colony in South America.
Peter Larson tells us how his team discovered the most complete T-Rex fossil in the world
In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan.
Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia and becomes an independent sovereign state
A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima
In August 1996 in Iran, there was a plot to kill 21 writers on a bus jouney to Armenia
In July 1973 military officers staged a coup which toppled the monarchy in Afghanistan
In August 1978 an Australian doctor successfully fitted a multi-channel cochlear implant.
In August 1960 the controversial Oscar-nominated psychological thriller was released
In July 1964, a white actor and a black actress, kissed, live, on a British TV show
On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began
Chilean soldiers attacked and burnt two students during protests in July 1986.
In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill
A drug sting in a small Texas town in 1999 went badly wrong and caused a national scandal
In July 1979 Iran's new Islamic government closed down Tehran's red-light district.
Egypt's Aswan dam was completed in 1970, at a huge cost to local people and antiquities
In the 1950s the CIA began attempts to brainwash psychiatric patients.
Alcides Ghiggia scored a famous goal for Uruguay in a match at Brazil鈥檚 Maracana stadium
