1452 Episodes

  1. East Germany's coffee from Vietnam

    Published: 5/7/2024

  2. Friends: The making of a smash hit

    Published: 5/6/2024

  3. The Channel Tunnel breakthrough

    Published: 5/3/2024

  4. Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'

    Published: 5/2/2024

  5. How to win friends and influence people

    Published: 5/1/2024

  6. How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world

    Published: 4/30/2024

  7. Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay

    Published: 4/29/2024

  8. Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile

    Published: 4/26/2024

  9. Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships

    Published: 4/25/2024

  10. Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

    Published: 4/24/2024

  11. Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

    Published: 4/23/2024

  12. South Africa's referendum on apartheid

    Published: 4/22/2024

  13. Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

    Published: 4/19/2024

  14. Deadly Everest avalanche

    Published: 4/18/2024

  15. West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

    Published: 4/17/2024

  16. The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

    Published: 4/16/2024

  17. Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

    Published: 4/15/2024

  18. Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

    Published: 4/12/2024

  19. St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

    Published: 4/11/2024

  20. The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

    Published: 4/10/2024

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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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.