The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler. As a young boy, Edgar Feuchtwanger watched the comings and goings at the Nazi leader's luxury flat.

Edgar's family were forced to flee Germany after the Nazis attacked Jewish homes and properties on Kristallnacht in November 1938.

Photo: Edgar aged 12, courtesy of Feuchtwanger family.

In 1789, one of the most famous naval mutinies of all time took place near Tahiti. Mutineers led by a young officer called Fletcher Christian took control of the British ship, casting its commander, William Bligh, adrift in the uncharted South Seas.

Using contemporary eye-witness accounts, Witness pieces together what happened.

Image: William Bligh is set adrift. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

One of the longest-serving leaders of the Soviet Union died on the 10 of November 1982. Hear about his final moments and the glitch at his state funeral.

Photo: Associated Press

In London in 1984, a joint Nigerian-Israeli team attempted to kidnap and repatriate the exiled former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko.

Dikko, who'd fled Nigeria after a military coup, was accused of stealing $1 billion of government money.

We hear from Charles David Morrow, the young British customs officer who foiled the kidnap plot.

Photo: Umaru Dikko shortly after his release. BBC

In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite race of blonde blue eyed children.

At the age of 30, the British photographer, Don McCullin, travelled to Asia for his second ever war assignment - Vietnam.

His graphic photographs of the fighting made his reputation and influenced public opinion in the West.

But even now, McCullin is still pained by his experiences in Vietnam.

PHOTO: Don McCullin with his iconic photo of a US marine. (AFP/Getty Images)

In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the provocative German writer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. But the local Jewish community said the work was anti-semitic. Hear from an actress, and a protestor involved in the controversy.

Photo: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Copyright: BBC

It is 95 years since the October Revolution which led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

Hear an account from the BBC's archive, of a young woman living in Moscow.

Photo: A demonstration in Moscow during the revolution. AFP/Getty Images

Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, in San Francisco in October 1955.

It marked a turning point in American literature.

Michael McClure, a fellow poet, took part in the reading that night.

Photo: Allen Ginsberg with other poets in 1965. Express/Getty Images.

Fifty years ago, the USA and the Soviet Union were poised to go to war over nuclear weapons in Cuba.

The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw the missiles as the crisis came to a head.

His son Sergei remembers those fraught few days.

Photo: Courtesy of Sergei Khrushchev.