Witness: Archive 2011

In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France.It was created for Coco Chanel - the fashion designer and good-time girl - who wanted something modern and fresh to suit the times.(Photo: A young Coco Chanel, credit Getty images)

In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup at Wembley.A supporter and a player talk about the match, and the emotions.Listen to David Sadler, and life-long fan Brian Hughes.Photo: David Sadler in action. Getty images.

In May 1971 a group of women challenged the ban on contraception in Ireland.They took a train from the Republic of Ireland in the south across the border to Northern Ireland and came back laden with pills and condoms. Nell McCafferty was one of the leaders of the protest.(Picture: Condoms, Credit:

In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago.They thought they had carried out the perfect crime.But they were soon caught and put on trial.Witness investigates their motives.

In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army. Although the Muslim minority had lived in the region for centuries they were ordered out by Stalin.Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly women and children, were put on trains and sent to Uzbekistan.Photo: Dilara Aslanovna Baganovna's family before deportation.

Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I.Grace O'Malley led hundreds of men into battle at sea and on land. When Ireland's English rulers tried to curb her power she paid a personal visit Queen Elizabeth to argue her case.

The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945.The Soviet soldiers had a terrifying reputation and civilians in their path feared looting and violence.One German woman who survived that time tells her story.Photo: Associated PressThis programme was scheduled for broadcast on May 2nd but postponed due to the death of Osama bin Laden.

At Easter 1916, a small army of Irish rebels attempted to start a revolution against British rule.They held out for more than a week against a massive British military response.Witness brings together eye-witness accounts of the Easter Rising.A street barricade in Dublin. Photo: Getty images.

Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of George I in London.He'd been found in the forests of Germany and sent to England at the request of the King.But what was his life like? Historian Lucy Worsley has followed up the clues.

President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe.Although a communist, he refused to toe the Moscow line.His former doctor remembers a man who loved the good life, and held his country together with an iron grip.Photo: Getty Images

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 May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.It meant defeat for Germany, but great rejoicing in Britain.One man whose joy was captured on camera that day speaks to Witness about the celebrations in London's Trafalgar Square.Photo: 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. (Credit: George Konig/Keystone/Getty Images)

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.