1472 Episodes

  1. The first modern asthma inhaler

    Published: 8/19/2020

  2. The lost King of England

    Published: 8/18/2020

  3. Surviving Saddam

    Published: 8/17/2020

  4. The invention of the modern ventilator

    Published: 8/14/2020

  5. Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

    Published: 8/13/2020

  6. Beirut's Hotel War

    Published: 8/12/2020

  7. Bremen’s Elephant Statue

    Published: 8/11/2020

  8. Radar and World War Two

    Published: 8/10/2020

  9. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

    Published: 8/6/2020

  10. The battle of Midway

    Published: 8/5/2020

  11. The internment of Japanese Americans

    Published: 8/4/2020

  12. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Published: 8/3/2020

  13. The death of Heinrich Himmler

    Published: 7/31/2020

  14. Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

    Published: 7/30/2020

  15. Adrift for 76 days

    Published: 7/29/2020

  16. Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

    Published: 7/28/2020

  17. The writer who put Latinos centre stage

    Published: 7/27/2020

  18. The fastest vaccine ever developed

    Published: 7/24/2020

  19. The first safe house for Afghan women

    Published: 7/23/2020

  20. The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

    Published: 7/22/2020

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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.