The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1960 a young Englishwoman made a discovery that changed our understanding of animals
In November 1899, Sigmund Freud published a book called The Interpretation of Dreams.
Performance artist Chris Burden was filmed as a friend shot him in the arm.
The criminal mystery as told by the son of the murdered nanny
Hear from two East Germans who were among the first to cross on 9 November, 1989
A Soviet spy ring was uncovered operating from a London bungalow in 1961
In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes
This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war
The death of left-wing, Sri Lankan rebel, Rohana Wijeweera in government custody in 1989
Manfred Marx discovery in the Kalahari transformed Botswana's economy after independence
The shocking killings that became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war.
In 1994, a French magazine revealed that President Mitterrand had a secret daughter
In November 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in a Baghdad courtroom
The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
The flamboyant gay author of The Naked Civil Servant died on 21 November, 1999
In 1935 India's Doon School opened, producing prime ministers, authors and businessmen
What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?
In November 1974, West German band Kraftwerk released their seminal album Autobahn
The battle against billions of rabbits devastating the Australian countryside
The famous landmark the old Ottoman bridge was destroyed in the Balkans War in 1993
Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.
How California students won the right to demonstrate on university property
On this day 100 years ago Lady Nancy Astor was elected to British parliament
Journalist Terry Anderson was freed after being held hostage in Beirut
