A young Italian flyer describes in a letter home how he mounted the world's first ever aerial bombing run during an attack on Ottoman forces in Libya, in 1911.

Giulio Gavotti in 1910. Photograph courtesy of his grandson, Paolo di Vecchi.

In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison.

She and Andreas Baader had led a terror campaign against the West German state in the early 1970s.

Journalist Stefan Aust knew her well, he talks to Witness.

Photo: Press Association

On 8 May 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Defeat for Germany meant great rejoicing in Britain.

Alan Johnston spoke to people at the centre of celebrations that day including Australian bomber pilot Geoffrey Cornish and British sailor George Broomhead.

These first-hand accounts are brought together with archive recordings in this programme which was first broadcast in 2011.

(Photo: George Broomhead in Trafalgar Square. Credit: Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes.

Roger Bannister talks about how he trained and how he became a runner in the first place.

It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain.

A grand event which aimed to lift post-war Britain out of its age of austerity.

A stretch of London riverbank was completely rebuilt with futuristic buildings and sculptures.

We remember the day in 1998 when al-Qaeda bombed America's embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and hear the harrowing testimony of a man who was blinded for life in one of the blasts.

In 1945, the Red Army occupied part of Berlin as World War II came to an end.

Witness speaks to one German woman about life in the city under the Soviet troops.

(Photo: A Russian soldier on horseback supervising German prisoners of war as they drive a herd of cattle past Stettiner Railway Station on the way to Russia, 23rd October 1945.

In the 1930s, a combination of bad weather and Soviet policy led to a devastating famine in Ukraine.

Alan Johnston brings together accounts from a survivor and a journalist who visited Ukraine at the time.

This programme was first broadcast last year.

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

He was 60 years old when he paid millions of dollars to be blasted into space alongside two Russian astronauts.

He has been talking to Witness.

In 1978, tens of thousands of music fans attended an anti-racism concert in the East End of London.

Rock against Racism was the biggest anti-fascist demonstration since World War II.

Witness speaks to one of the organisers Roger Huddle, and to the musician, Billy Bragg, who was in the crowd.