1501 Episodes

  1. Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech

    Published: 28/10/2022

  2. Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan

    Published: 27/10/2022

  3. Theatre siege in Moscow

    Published: 26/10/2022

  4. The Iranian Revolution and women

    Published: 25/10/2022

  5. Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand

    Published: 24/10/2022

  6. Founder of the Cuban National Ballet

    Published: 21/10/2022

  7. Cuba's boxing ban

    Published: 20/10/2022

  8. The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write

    Published: 19/10/2022

  9. Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown

    Published: 18/10/2022

  10. Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos

    Published: 17/10/2022

  11. Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers

    Published: 14/10/2022

  12. Torturing strikers in South Korea

    Published: 12/10/2022

  13. Disney animators' strike

    Published: 11/10/2022

  14. UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’

    Published: 10/10/2022

  15. The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival

    Published: 7/10/2022

  16. The Harder They Come

    Published: 6/10/2022

  17. The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

    Published: 5/10/2022

  18. The release of Gilad Shalit

    Published: 4/10/2022

  19. The funk and soul club that changed Manchester

    Published: 3/10/2022

  20. Dassler brothers’ rift

    Published: 30/09/2022

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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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