Witness History Clips

1. My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss—My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss

   Duration: 01:29

2. Why do fans love Pokémon 30 years later?—'I developed Pokémon'

   Duration: 01:22

3. Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran in 1979—Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran

   Duration: 01:28

4. Longplayer: The 1000-year-long musical composition—The longest musical composition

   Duration: 01:15

5. Eva Peron: Who was the real Evita?—Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita

   Duration: 01:27

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

   Duration: 01:17

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

   Duration: 01:32

8. 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

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

   Duration: 01:27

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

    Duration: 01:31

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

    Duration: 00:47

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

    Duration: 01:27

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

    Duration: 01:30

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

    Duration: 01:26

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

    Duration: 01:29

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

    Duration: 01:26

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

    Duration: 01:31

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

    Duration: 01:32

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

    Duration: 01:29

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

    Duration: 01:29

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

    Duration: 01:28

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

    Duration: 01:27

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

    Duration: 01:10

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

    Duration: 01:04