1504 Episodes

  1. The World Wide Web

    Published: 15/04/2022

  2. How Tinder changed the dating game

    Published: 14/04/2022

  3. Greece's Great Famine

    Published: 13/04/2022

  4. The largest war crimes trial in history

    Published: 12/04/2022

  5. Nato intervenes in Kosovo

    Published: 11/04/2022

  6. The Great American Grain Robbery

    Published: 8/04/2022

  7. The handshake in Space

    Published: 7/04/2022

  8. The Soviet Afghan War Begins

    Published: 6/04/2022

  9. The Falklands War - an Argentine account

    Published: 5/04/2022

  10. Escaping a Maoist cult

    Published: 1/04/2022

  11. Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers

    Published: 31/03/2022

  12. Afghanistan's women's newspaper

    Published: 30/03/2022

  13. Banksy’s first street art mural

    Published: 29/03/2022

  14. The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin

    Published: 28/03/2022

  15. Soviet holidays in Crimea

    Published: 25/03/2022

  16. Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre

    Published: 24/03/2022

  17. The Budapest Memorandum

    Published: 22/03/2022

  18. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

    Published: 21/03/2022

  19. The Shard

    Published: 18/03/2022

  20. Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

    Published: 17/03/2022

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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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