1498 Episodes

  1. The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon

    Published: 30/10/2023

  2. Turkey: Gezi Park protests

    Published: 27/10/2023

  3. 'The streets of Harare were littered with money'

    Published: 26/10/2023

  4. The 1993 MAD hijack

    Published: 25/10/2023

  5. The 1980 Turkey coup

    Published: 24/10/2023

  6. The first Bosphorus Bridge

    Published: 23/10/2023

  7. Osmondmania

    Published: 20/10/2023

  8. Launching Lagos Fashion Week

    Published: 19/10/2023

  9. Mexico’s murdered women

    Published: 18/10/2023

  10. Rana Plaza building collapse

    Published: 17/10/2023

  11. Cambodian peace walk

    Published: 16/10/2023

  12. Surviving an acid attack and changing the law

    Published: 13/10/2023

  13. Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power

    Published: 12/10/2023

  14. Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag

    Published: 11/10/2023

  15. The 84-year-old primary school pupil

    Published: 10/10/2023

  16. Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle

    Published: 9/10/2023

  17. Protectors of the Amazon

    Published: 6/10/2023

  18. The Amoco Cadiz oil spill

    Published: 5/10/2023

  19. Nigeria strikes oil

    Published: 4/10/2023

  20. The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan

    Published: 3/10/2023

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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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