In 1963, a small group of black activists in Bristol in the UK started a pioneering protest against racism by the local bus company, which had specified that they did not want to employ black drivers. Inspired by the example of Martin Luther King, the boycott ended in victory and led to the passage of Britain's first anti-discrimination laws.

Paul Stephenson talks about his part in the protest.

Mao declares the formation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949. We hear from an American who helped to plan the revolution in the caves of Yan'an. Sidney Rittenberg remembers what the early days of communist rule were like in China.

On September 30th 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from negotiations with Hitler promising "peace in our time". He had agreed for Hitler to take over the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia, as part of a policy known as appeasement.

It is 60 years since an American academic Alfred Kinsey published an in-depth study of women's sex lives. He and his researchers had interviewed thousands of women about their experiences. The results shocked America.

Hear from his daughter, who took part in the research.

Photo: Dr Alfred Kinsey (centre) with his team of researchers from Indiana University. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

In 1991, the Yugoslav army pounded the Croatian town for 87 days. The battle horrified the world and marked the start of the wars in former Yugoslavia. WItness hears from a Croat who defended Vukovar and from the former BBC war correspondent, Martin Bell.

In September 1984, the famous Spanish matador, Francisco Rivera, also known as Paquirri, was gored to death by a bull during a fight in the small town of Pozoblanco. The bravery he showed during his final moments turned Paquirri into a legend. Witness speaks to El Soro, a matador who shared the bill that fateful day, and to Muriel Finer, an American journalist married to a Spanish bullfighter.

Photo: A recent bullfight (Getty Images).

The first episode of Baywatch aired on 22 September 1989. It went on to be one of the world's biggest TV shows, broadcast in 44 languages in 148 countries. Executive producer Michael Berk remembers the birth of the programme.

(Photo: Baywatch promotional poster. Credit: Getty Images)

Re-education is still used as a form of punishment in Communist China. Hear from Robert Ford, a British man who spent five years being re-educated in the 1950s after being captured by Chinese soldiers in Tibet.

(Photo: Chinese soldiers enter Tibet in 1950. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The jazz legend Duke Ellington played a concert in the Afghan capital Kabul in September 1963 . Hear from Faiz Khairzada, the man who organised, not just his appearance, but a series of ambitious cultural events.

(Photo: Duke Ellington in 1964, Copyright BBC)

One week after the 9/11 attacks, a series of letters were sent to journalists and politicians. They contained the deadly biological agent Anthrax. The United States was gripped with fear as postal workers fell ill. The FBI launched one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in its history. Special Agent Scott Stanley was one of those on the case.

(Photo: Workers washing out rubbish bins. Credit: AP/Steve Mitchell)