1472 Episodes

  1. Banksy’s first street art mural

    Published: 3/29/2022

  2. The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin

    Published: 3/28/2022

  3. Soviet holidays in Crimea

    Published: 3/25/2022

  4. Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre

    Published: 3/24/2022

  5. The Budapest Memorandum

    Published: 3/22/2022

  6. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

    Published: 3/21/2022

  7. The Shard

    Published: 3/18/2022

  8. Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

    Published: 3/17/2022

  9. Teheran's Freedom Tower

    Published: 3/16/2022

  10. Chandigarh: India's city of the future

    Published: 3/15/2022

  11. The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction

    Published: 3/14/2022

  12. The Wages for Housework campaign

    Published: 3/11/2022

  13. Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

    Published: 3/10/2022

  14. The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war

    Published: 3/9/2022

  15. Russia's war in Georgia in 2008

    Published: 3/4/2022

  16. The takeover of NTV in Russia

    Published: 3/3/2022

  17. Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation

    Published: 3/2/2022

  18. Putin's war in Chechnya

    Published: 3/1/2022

  19. Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia

    Published: 2/28/2022

  20. The 2014 annexation of Crimea

    Published: 2/25/2022

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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.