1499 Episodes

  1. Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'

    Published: 5/09/2023

  2. Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners

    Published: 4/09/2023

  3. Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution

    Published: 1/09/2023

  4. Saving Guadalupe from goats

    Published: 31/08/2023

  5. Egypt's Rabaa massacre

    Published: 30/08/2023

  6. North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades

    Published: 29/08/2023

  7. The Bristol bus boycott

    Published: 28/08/2023

  8. Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot

    Published: 25/08/2023

  9. Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'

    Published: 24/08/2023

  10. The first Rose of Tralee

    Published: 23/08/2023

  11. How electricity came to rural Ireland

    Published: 22/08/2023

  12. Easter Rising in Ireland

    Published: 21/08/2023

  13. The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers

    Published: 18/08/2023

  14. Judy Garland: The final shows

    Published: 17/08/2023

  15. Returning Benin Bronzes

    Published: 16/08/2023

  16. Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953

    Published: 15/08/2023

  17. The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor

    Published: 14/08/2023

  18. Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene

    Published: 11/08/2023

  19. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal

    Published: 10/08/2023

  20. Sarajevo’s haven of peace

    Published: 9/08/2023

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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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