1498 Episodes

  1. Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food

    Published: 27/12/2023

  2. Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit

    Published: 26/12/2023

  3. Inventing Nutella

    Published: 25/12/2023

  4. 'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

    Published: 22/12/2023

  5. Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

    Published: 21/12/2023

  6. The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda

    Published: 20/12/2023

  7. The assassination of King Faisal

    Published: 19/12/2023

  8. Tsunami devastates Samoa

    Published: 18/12/2023

  9. The funeral of Nelson Mandela

    Published: 15/12/2023

  10. Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

    Published: 14/12/2023

  11. Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

    Published: 13/12/2023

  12. Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

    Published: 12/12/2023

  13. Murder of the Romanovs

    Published: 11/12/2023

  14. The release of DOOM

    Published: 8/12/2023

  15. ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina

    Published: 7/12/2023

  16. A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

    Published: 6/12/2023

  17. La Haine: The film that shocked France

    Published: 4/12/2023

  18. World's first solar-heated home

    Published: 1/12/2023

  19. Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

    Published: 30/11/2023

  20. The bird that defied extinction

    Published: 28/11/2023

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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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