1508 Episodes

  1. The world's first civil union

    Published: 18/02/2022

  2. Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

    Published: 17/02/2022

  3. The Berlin Patient

    Published: 16/02/2022

  4. "Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces

    Published: 15/02/2022

  5. The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia

    Published: 14/02/2022

  6. The 1972 mass killings in Burundi

    Published: 11/02/2022

  7. Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'

    Published: 10/02/2022

  8. Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik

    Published: 9/02/2022

  9. The invention of Google Maps

    Published: 8/02/2022

  10. The demise of the Soviet Union

    Published: 7/02/2022

  11. The first Emirati female teacher

    Published: 3/02/2022

  12. The day the world looked up

    Published: 2/02/2022

  13. The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl

    Published: 1/02/2022

  14. The Good Friday Agreement

    Published: 28/01/2022

  15. IRA gun-running in America

    Published: 27/01/2022

  16. The Grand Hotel Bombing

    Published: 26/01/2022

  17. Bloody Sunday

    Published: 25/01/2022

  18. British troops in Northern Ireland

    Published: 24/01/2022

  19. A Cold War love affair

    Published: 21/01/2022

  20. The first bicycle-sharing scheme

    Published: 20/01/2022

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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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