1498 Episodes

  1. West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

    Published: 17/04/2024

  2. The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

    Published: 16/04/2024

  3. Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

    Published: 15/04/2024

  4. Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

    Published: 12/04/2024

  5. St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

    Published: 11/04/2024

  6. The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

    Published: 10/04/2024

  7. How Lake Karla in Greece was drained

    Published: 9/04/2024

  8. The 2010 Kampala bombings

    Published: 8/04/2024

  9. Bonus: The Black 14

    Published: 6/04/2024

  10. Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day

    Published: 5/04/2024

  11. The Bluetooth story

    Published: 4/04/2024

  12. Sweden's pioneering paternity leave

    Published: 3/04/2024

  13. The man who invented the seat belt

    Published: 2/04/2024

  14. Fifty years of Abba

    Published: 31/03/2024

  15. Surviving the Rwandan genocide

    Published: 29/03/2024

  16. The founding of Nato

    Published: 28/03/2024

  17. Britain's first beach for nudists

    Published: 27/03/2024

  18. The Heimlich Manoeuvre

    Published: 26/03/2024

  19. Britain's Mirpuri migration

    Published: 25/03/2024

  20. Wham! in China

    Published: 22/03/2024

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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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