History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.
Nazi Germany had a nuclear programme, which could have given Hitler an atomic bomb
In 1941, Belfast in Northern Ireland was devastated by German bombing
Alberto Ramos remembers his time working for the great American novelist in Cuba.
In May 1960 Gary Powers was taken captive by the Soviets when his spy plane was shot down
In 1692 nineteen men and women were convicted of witchcraft and executed in America.
In 1959 the British Motoring Corporation unveiled a very small new family car - the Mini
In spring 1950, an American academic was wrongly named as the main Soviet agent in the US
The great English naturalist Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in April 1882
In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine
In 1966 the great French fashion designer went to Morocco for the first time
How actor David Garrick organised the first national celebration of Shakespeare in 1769
An industrial disaster in New York in 1911 led to huge social reforms.
A member of Cuba's communist militia recalls battling US-backed invaders in April 1961
A Harrier pilot remembers the air battle over the Falklands in 1982
On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
How writers and artists campaigned to bring culture to every corner of 1930s Spain
In 1971 the first Starbucks coffee shop opened in Seattle.
In 1961, in Soviet Central Asia, 21 managers were executed for using capitalist methods.
On 13 April 1919, the British Indian Army fired on an unarmed crowd, killing hundreds
On April 10 2000, Angela Merkel became the first woman to lead a German political party.
In a change to tradition Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married a non-royal, in April 1959.
In 1977 Somalia invaded Ethiopia in an attempt to take control of disputed territory.
In 1999 the body of legendary British mountaineer, George Mallory, was found on Everest.
