BBC World Service - Witness History

Dennis Tito - The first space tourist

Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist

How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation

It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.

Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India

How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993

Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state