1472 Episodes

  1. Drugs in the Vietnam War

    Published: 2/4/2021

  2. The Burma uprising of 1988

    Published: 2/3/2021

  3. The Moscow State Circus

    Published: 2/2/2021

  4. The first Eurostar from England to France

    Published: 2/1/2021

  5. The anthem of the Arab Spring

    Published: 1/29/2021

  6. Libya's Arab uprising

    Published: 1/28/2021

  7. Yemen's 2011 uprising

    Published: 1/27/2021

  8. Syria in the Arab Spring

    Published: 1/26/2021

  9. Egypt's Facebook Girl

    Published: 1/25/2021

  10. Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs

    Published: 1/22/2021

  11. Kenya's pioneering publisher

    Published: 1/21/2021

  12. The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

    Published: 1/20/2021

  13. Hitler's beer hall putsch

    Published: 1/19/2021

  14. Landing on Titan

    Published: 1/14/2021

  15. Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer

    Published: 1/13/2021

  16. Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol

    Published: 1/12/2021

  17. When Spain's parliament was stormed

    Published: 1/11/2021

  18. The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster

    Published: 1/8/2021

  19. Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

    Published: 1/7/2021

  20. The 'strike' in space

    Published: 1/6/2021

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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.