Witness History Clips

1. Play-Doh's surprising origins—Inventing Play-Doh

   Duration: 01:17

2. Why we still love The Moomins - 80 years on—My aunt created The Moomins

   Duration: 01:32

3. Resusci Anne: 'My father invented the CPR dummy after I nearly drowned'—Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy

   Duration: 01:08

4. Irawati Karve: India's first female anthropologist—Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist

   Duration: 01:27

5. Borobudur: How the world's largest Buddhist monument was restored—Borobudur Temple

   Duration: 01:31

6. The Greek debt crisis—Greece’s debt crisis

   Duration: 00:47

7. Risking my life for Palmyra's artefacts—Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group

   Duration: 01:27

8. Miniatur Wunderland: The world's largest model railway—The world’s largest model train set

   Duration: 01:30

9. Medellin Metro: The cable cars that transformed a Colombian city—The opening of the Medellin Metro

   Duration: 01:26

10. Did Shostakovich defy Stalin with Symphony No 5?—When Stalin silenced Shostakovich

    Duration: 01:29

11. My dad invented the automatic electric rice cooker—The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker

    Duration: 01:26

12. Discovering Homofloresiensis: 'I hated the name hobbit'—Discovery of the 'Hobbit'

    Duration: 01:31

13. “We nearly doubled their population” - Stranded in Gander on 9/11—9/11: The generosity of Gander

    Duration: 01:32

14. Who was Malcolm X?—Assassination of Malcolm X

    Duration: 01:29

15. Why are the world's coral reefs turning white?—The first global case of coral bleaching

    Duration: 01:29

16. Alexei Leonov: The first person to spacewalk—First spacewalk

    Duration: 01:28

17. 'Don't forget our language': The last Bo speaker—Bo: The death of a language

    Duration: 01:27

18. Back to the Future could have looked very different—Back to the Future

    Duration: 01:10

19. The story of World Book Day—The origin of World Book Day

    Duration: 01:04

20. 'How I uncovered the Unabomber's identity'—Hunting the Unabomber

    Duration: 01:27

21. What do US presidents like to eat?—Chef to five presidents

    Duration: 01:29

22. 'I was at the Shah of Iran's huge party'—The Shah of Iran's party

    Duration: 01:30

23. What sparks joy for tidying expert Marie Kondo?—Marie Kondo

    Duration: 01:30

24. The Indian couple caring for kids after the 2004 tsunami—Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu

    Duration: 01:23