1499 Episodes

  1. Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

    Published: 12/06/2023

  2. 1955 Le Mans disaster

    Published: 9/06/2023

  3. Last communist march before Hitler

    Published: 8/06/2023

  4. Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder

    Published: 6/06/2023

  5. Inuit children taken from families

    Published: 5/06/2023

  6. The first Indian woman to conquer Everest

    Published: 2/06/2023

  7. Tragedy on Everest

    Published: 1/06/2023

  8. Mallory’s body discovered on Everest

    Published: 31/05/2023

  9. Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest

    Published: 30/05/2023

  10. Edmund Hillary conquers Everest

    Published: 29/05/2023

  11. The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world

    Published: 26/05/2023

  12. Trying to unite Africa

    Published: 25/05/2023

  13. Chasing the world’s biggest tornado

    Published: 24/05/2023

  14. Fikret Alić

    Published: 23/05/2023

  15. The sergeants' coup in Suriname

    Published: 22/05/2023

  16. Pippi Longstocking

    Published: 19/05/2023

  17. Creating New Zealand's national walking trail

    Published: 18/05/2023

  18. The Dambusters

    Published: 17/05/2023

  19. German child evacuees of World War Two

    Published: 16/05/2023

  20. Singapore executes Filipina maid

    Published: 15/05/2023

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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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