1472 Episodes

  1. The year of the vuvuzela

    Published: 22/09/2023

  2. Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack

    Published: 21/09/2023

  3. The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'

    Published: 20/09/2023

  4. Fighting for legal abortion in Italy

    Published: 19/09/2023

  5. Nazi eugenics

    Published: 18/09/2023

  6. The Ramallah concert

    Published: 15/09/2023

  7. The siege at the Church of the Nativity

    Published: 14/09/2023

  8. Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa

    Published: 13/09/2023

  9. Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed

    Published: 12/09/2023

  10. Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal

    Published: 11/09/2023

  11. Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup

    Published: 08/09/2023

  12. Organising Chile's 1973 military coup

    Published: 07/09/2023

  13. Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh

    Published: 06/09/2023

  14. Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'

    Published: 05/09/2023

  15. Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners

    Published: 04/09/2023

  16. Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution

    Published: 01/09/2023

  17. Saving Guadalupe from goats

    Published: 31/08/2023

  18. Egypt's Rabaa massacre

    Published: 30/08/2023

  19. North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades

    Published: 29/08/2023

  20. The Bristol bus boycott

    Published: 28/08/2023

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Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.

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