1472 Episodes

  1. Afghanistan's poppy problem

    Published: 6/3/2021

  2. When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers

    Published: 6/2/2021

  3. The killing of Pablo Escobar

    Published: 6/1/2021

  4. The war on drugs

    Published: 5/31/2021

  5. The Tulsa Race Massacre

    Published: 5/28/2021

  6. Rock concert for Chernobyl

    Published: 5/27/2021

  7. Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend

    Published: 5/26/2021

  8. The first Arab woman pilot

    Published: 5/25/2021

  9. The strike that shocked India

    Published: 5/24/2021

  10. Fighting forced marriage in war

    Published: 5/21/2021

  11. Saving the world's wetlands

    Published: 5/20/2021

  12. Striking in South Korea in 1980

    Published: 5/18/2021

  13. When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound

    Published: 5/17/2021

  14. China's Democracy Wall

    Published: 5/14/2021

  15. The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'

    Published: 5/13/2021

  16. The Jewish exodus from Iraq

    Published: 5/12/2021

  17. Legalising contraception in Ireland

    Published: 5/11/2021

  18. Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

    Published: 5/10/2021

  19. The Great Wine Fraud

    Published: 5/6/2021

  20. Ursula Le Guin

    Published: 5/5/2021

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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.