Witness History: Archive 2013

British MP John Stonehouse faked his own death in Miami in November 1974 - and was discovered just weeks later in Australia on 24 December. Lucy Burns speaks to his barrister, Geoffrey Robertson QC.

When the American billionaire Howard Hughes died in 1976, nobody had seen him in public for 20 years. Once dashing, powerful and almost unimaginably rich, Hughes slowly turned into the world's most famous recluse. Louise Hidalgo talks to the Californian journalist, Frank McCulloch, who met Howard Hughes face-to-face and stayed in touch with him for decades.

PHOTO: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A former student describes how he made a desperate appeal for the support of the outside world as invading Soviet tanks rumbled through the streets of the Czechoslovak capital in August 1968. This programme was first broadcast in 2010.

Picture: Soviet troops in Prague (Getty Images)

After their release in 1973, former US prisoners of war began to talk about the torture they had suffered at the hands of the Vietcong. One of the POWs who spent longest in Vietnamese prison camps was Everett Alvarez - hear his story.

(Photo: American prisoners of war leaving Vietnam in 1973 (AFP/Getty Images)

It is 70 years since German troops lost their battle to take the Soviet industrial city. They had spent a harsh Russian winter fighting from house to house on starvation rations. Eventually they were cut off from their supply lines and forced to surrender.

Photo: Red Army troops in Stalingrad, January 1943. Keystone/Getty Images.