1472 Episodes

  1. China's trailblazing foreign students

    Published: 7/2/2021

  2. The Chinese Communist Party

    Published: 7/1/2021

  3. The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime

    Published: 6/29/2021

  4. Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings

    Published: 6/28/2021

  5. The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'

    Published: 6/25/2021

  6. China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'

    Published: 6/24/2021

  7. The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'

    Published: 6/23/2021

  8. Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire

    Published: 6/22/2021

  9. The Stonewall Inn

    Published: 6/21/2021

  10. China's 'Economic Miracle'

    Published: 6/18/2021

  11. The Trabant

    Published: 6/17/2021

  12. The police rape interview that shocked Britain

    Published: 6/16/2021

  13. Mindfulness for the masses

    Published: 6/14/2021

  14. The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

    Published: 6/14/2021

  15. The Fall of Madrid

    Published: 6/11/2021

  16. The elections that Hamas won

    Published: 6/10/2021

  17. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem

    Published: 6/9/2021

  18. Tunisia’s legal brothels

    Published: 6/8/2021

  19. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

    Published: 6/7/2021

  20. How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic

    Published: 6/4/2021

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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.