1503 Episodes

  1. The US’s first gay election candidate

    Published: 8/07/2022

  2. How the smear test was invented

    Published: 7/07/2022

  3. Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

    Published: 6/07/2022

  4. Japanese university student riots

    Published: 5/07/2022

  5. The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works

    Published: 4/07/2022

  6. Hong Kong: Abandoned children

    Published: 30/06/2022

  7. Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City

    Published: 30/06/2022

  8. Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China

    Published: 29/06/2022

  9. Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner

    Published: 28/06/2022

  10. Hong Kong: The handover

    Published: 27/06/2022

  11. The UK's first official gay Pride March

    Published: 24/06/2022

  12. Egypt's first democratic presidential election

    Published: 23/06/2022

  13. The killing of Vincent Chin

    Published: 22/06/2022

  14. Robot Surgeon

    Published: 21/06/2022

  15. India's surrogacy capital

    Published: 20/06/2022

  16. Cambodia war crimes

    Published: 17/06/2022

  17. James Joyce and Ulysses

    Published: 16/06/2022

  18. New York's LGBT High School

    Published: 15/06/2022

  19. Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'

    Published: 14/06/2022

  20. Holy Cross school dispute

    Published: 13/06/2022

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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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