1558 Episodes

  1. Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer

    Published: 31/10/2025

  2. Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds

    Published: 30/10/2025

  3. Srebrenica massacre

    Published: 29/10/2025

  4. The invention of the balloon-expandable stent

    Published: 28/10/2025

  5. Death of a priest

    Published: 27/10/2025

  6. The man who invented the scratch card

    Published: 24/10/2025

  7. GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity

    Published: 23/10/2025

  8. The UK’s first black-owned music studio

    Published: 22/10/2025

  9. Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

    Published: 21/10/2025

  10. The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia

    Published: 20/10/2025

  11. My aunt created The Moomins

    Published: 17/10/2025

  12. Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones

    Published: 16/10/2025

  13. The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky

    Published: 15/10/2025

  14. Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction

    Published: 14/10/2025

  15. Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir

    Published: 13/10/2025

  16. How BRICS got its name

    Published: 10/10/2025

  17. Japan surrenders in Beijing

    Published: 9/10/2025

  18. The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away

    Published: 8/10/2025

  19. 'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'

    Published: 7/10/2025

  20. The home video war

    Published: 6/10/2025

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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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