1472 Episodes

  1. Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia

    Published: 4/27/2020

  2. Tennessee Williams on the BBC

    Published: 4/24/2020

  3. The Brompton Manley Ventilator

    Published: 4/23/2020

  4. Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'

    Published: 4/22/2020

  5. The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

    Published: 4/21/2020

  6. The Deepwater Horizon disaster

    Published: 4/20/2020

  7. Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world

    Published: 4/17/2020

  8. A space crash

    Published: 4/17/2020

  9. When Skylab fell to Earth

    Published: 4/16/2020

  10. The last men on the Moon

    Published: 4/15/2020

  11. The first iPhone

    Published: 4/14/2020

  12. Nasa's female aquanauts

    Published: 4/14/2020

  13. The unlikely pioneers of online shopping

    Published: 4/10/2020

  14. Six Degrees: The first online social network

    Published: 4/8/2020

  15. The Trojan Room coffee pot

    Published: 4/7/2020

  16. The Homebrew computer club

    Published: 4/6/2020

  17. Being a Chinese Muslim

    Published: 4/3/2020

  18. The Swedish warship restored after 300 years

    Published: 4/2/2020

  19. Avenging the Amritsar Massacre

    Published: 4/1/2020

  20. The trembling giant

    Published: 3/31/2020

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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.