In 1944, in the middle of World War Two, the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic Sea. His resistance to German occupation had made him a target and he was taken there for his own safety by the British. After the war he went on to lead Communist Yugoslavia until his death.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a high-security jail. But the singer had been interested in prisoners' lives for years. His drummer remembers the day they first set foot in the prison.

Photo: Johnny Cash - BBC.

In January 1999, a combined rebel force invaded the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.

Despite the presence of a Nigerian-led intervention force, the rebels took much of the city.

Thousands were killed.

We talk to a former rebel soldier who was there. Some listeners may find his account disturbing.

Photo: Nigerian ECOMOG troops in Freetown Jan 1999 AFP/Getty Images

In January 1967 the record-breaking driver was killed at the helm of his jetboat Bluebird.

Donald Campbell crashed trying to beat his own water speed record.

His only daughter, Gina, remembers her legendary father.

Photo: Campbell's boat "Bluebird" summersaulting before sinking in Coniston Water. (PA)

In January 1953, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" had its premiere at a small avante-garde theatre in Paris.

With its long pauses and lack of plot, the play was revolutionary.

Simon Watts talks to Beckett's biographer and friend, Professor Jim Knowlson of Reading University.

PHOTO: Samuel Beckett visting the BBC in 1977.

How a young American scientist began the work that would show how our climate is changing. His name was Charles Keeling and he meticulously recorded levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. His wife Louise and son Ralph remember him.

Photo: John Giles/PA Wire

It is 35 years since the South African newspaper editor was forced into exile. He had shown that the police had killed anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. After he published the story, he and his wife and children had to leave South Africa in fear for their lives. It would be more than 10 years before he could return home.

Photo: Donald Woods and Nelson Mandela. BBC