1472 Episodes

  1. Freeing American prisoners from Iran

    Published: 2/28/2020

  2. The last smallpox outbreak

    Published: 2/27/2020

  3. The rebel nuns who left their convent behind

    Published: 2/26/2020

  4. The first mobile phone call

    Published: 2/25/2020

  5. An Antarctic mystery

    Published: 2/24/2020

  6. Saving Antarctica

    Published: 2/21/2020

  7. Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'

    Published: 2/20/2020

  8. Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria

    Published: 2/19/2020

  9. How meditation changes your brain

    Published: 2/18/2020

  10. The Pale Blue Dot

    Published: 2/17/2020

  11. The Rules: A dating handbook

    Published: 2/14/2020

  12. The best-seller Fear of Flying

    Published: 2/13/2020

  13. Diary of life in a favela

    Published: 2/12/2020

  14. The man who first published Harry Potter

    Published: 2/11/2020

  15. Chairman Mao's Little Red Book

    Published: 2/10/2020

  16. The release of Nelson Mandela

    Published: 2/7/2020

  17. The Native American casino boom in the US

    Published: 2/6/2020

  18. Witnessing the birth of a new language

    Published: 2/5/2020

  19. Cixi: China's most powerful woman

    Published: 2/4/2020

  20. London's first black policeman

    Published: 2/3/2020

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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.