1472 Episodes

  1. Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos

    Published: 10/17/2022

  2. Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers

    Published: 10/14/2022

  3. Torturing strikers in South Korea

    Published: 10/12/2022

  4. Disney animators' strike

    Published: 10/11/2022

  5. UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’

    Published: 10/10/2022

  6. The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival

    Published: 10/7/2022

  7. The Harder They Come

    Published: 10/6/2022

  8. The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

    Published: 10/5/2022

  9. The release of Gilad Shalit

    Published: 10/4/2022

  10. The funk and soul club that changed Manchester

    Published: 10/3/2022

  11. Dassler brothers’ rift

    Published: 9/30/2022

  12. The raising of the Mary Rose

    Published: 9/29/2022

  13. Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos

    Published: 9/28/2022

  14. The power of Jomo Kenyatta

    Published: 9/26/2022

  15. Festival of Light

    Published: 9/23/2022

  16. Iran-Iraq War begins

    Published: 9/22/2022

  17. The first Pope to visit Africa

    Published: 9/21/2022

  18. Ancient fossils give new insight

    Published: 9/20/2022

  19. World War Two child evacuees in Britain

    Published: 9/19/2022

  20. The last days of Queen Victoria

    Published: 9/16/2022

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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.