1494 Episodes

  1. The mystery of Evita’s corpse

    Published: 8/07/2025

  2. Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'

    Published: 7/07/2025

  3. Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger

    Published: 4/07/2025

  4. Back to the Future

    Published: 3/07/2025

  5. Drill, baby, drill!

    Published: 2/07/2025

  6. Cecil the lion

    Published: 1/07/2025

  7. Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art

    Published: 30/06/2025

  8. Italian happiness trains

    Published: 27/06/2025

  9. The opening of the Medellin Metro

    Published: 26/06/2025

  10. The funeral train for Robert Kennedy

    Published: 25/06/2025

  11. The Czech Freedom Train

    Published: 24/06/2025

  12. The Gratitude Train: France thanks America

    Published: 23/06/2025

  13. Making Jaws

    Published: 20/06/2025

  14. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Published: 19/06/2025

  15. Civil rights swim-in

    Published: 18/06/2025

  16. Charleston church shooting

    Published: 17/06/2025

  17. 'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women

    Published: 16/06/2025

  18. The Schengen Agreement

    Published: 13/06/2025

  19. Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

    Published: 12/06/2025

  20. Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise

    Published: 11/06/2025

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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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