1501 Episodes

  1. How cat's eyes were invented

    Published: 25/11/2022

  2. The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim

    Published: 24/11/2022

  3. When Sweden’s roads went right

    Published: 23/11/2022

  4. First women’s minister in Iran

    Published: 22/11/2022

  5. The invention of the seat belt

    Published: 21/11/2022

  6. Qatar's first female published author

    Published: 18/11/2022

  7. First Emirati female teacher

    Published: 17/11/2022

  8. Inventing robot camel jockeys

    Published: 16/11/2022

  9. Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building

    Published: 15/11/2022

  10. Formation of the United Arab Emirates

    Published: 14/11/2022

  11. The child evacuees of World War Two

    Published: 11/11/2022

  12. Māori protests stops South African rugby tour

    Published: 10/11/2022

  13. The assassination of Pim Fortuyn

    Published: 9/11/2022

  14. First rape crisis centres in the US

    Published: 8/11/2022

  15. Polynesian Panthers

    Published: 7/11/2022

  16. Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme

    Published: 4/11/2022

  17. Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher

    Published: 3/11/2022

  18. Campaigning against sex-selection in India

    Published: 2/11/2022

  19. Albania’s Stalinist purges

    Published: 1/11/2022

  20. The Little Black Book survival guide

    Published: 31/10/2022

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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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