1472 Episodes

  1. Mexico's female serial killer

    Published: 4/6/2021

  2. The women who reclaimed the night

    Published: 4/5/2021

  3. Black Jesus

    Published: 4/2/2021

  4. Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

    Published: 4/1/2021

  5. Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

    Published: 3/31/2021

  6. When the prisoners ran the prison

    Published: 3/30/2021

  7. Anorexia nervosa

    Published: 3/29/2021

  8. South Africa takes on big pharma

    Published: 3/25/2021

  9. The woman who got America talking about sex

    Published: 3/24/2021

  10. Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’

    Published: 3/23/2021

  11. The Ulster Workers' Strike

    Published: 3/22/2021

  12. The dirtiest chess match in history

    Published: 3/19/2021

  13. Mars-500 isolation experiment

    Published: 3/18/2021

  14. Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden

    Published: 3/17/2021

  15. Paris is Burning

    Published: 3/15/2021

  16. The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles

    Published: 3/11/2021

  17. Jane: The underground abortion network

    Published: 3/10/2021

  18. Cixi: China's most powerful woman

    Published: 3/9/2021

  19. The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

    Published: 3/8/2021

  20. Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech

    Published: 3/5/2021

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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.