1472 Episodes

  1. The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'

    Published: 12/8/2020

  2. The life and work of Chester Himes

    Published: 12/7/2020

  3. The V1 flying bomb

    Published: 12/4/2020

  4. The slaves who defeated Napoleon

    Published: 12/2/2020

  5. France's Muslim headscarf ban

    Published: 12/2/2020

  6. Iraq's pioneering feminist

    Published: 12/1/2020

  7. How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991

    Published: 11/30/2020

  8. The fight for disabled rights in the UK

    Published: 11/27/2020

  9. Rwanda at the Paralympics

    Published: 11/26/2020

  10. India's campaign for disability rights

    Published: 11/25/2020

  11. Britain's little blue disability car

    Published: 11/24/2020

  12. Helen Keller

    Published: 11/23/2020

  13. When the Egyptian president went to Israel

    Published: 11/20/2020

  14. Our Bodies, Ourselves

    Published: 11/19/2020

  15. America's WW2 refugee camp

    Published: 11/18/2020

  16. The world's first woman premier

    Published: 11/17/2020

  17. Captured by Somali pirates

    Published: 11/16/2020

  18. The 'good enough' mother

    Published: 11/13/2020

  19. When Pluto lost its planet status

    Published: 11/12/2020

  20. World War One in Africa

    Published: 11/11/2020

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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.