1472 Episodes

  1. East Germany's punks

    Published: 1/3/2020

  2. Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain

    Published: 1/2/2020

  3. The book that predicted an end to civilisation

    Published: 1/1/2020

  4. Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war

    Published: 12/31/2019

  5. The Chippendales

    Published: 12/30/2019

  6. Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign

    Published: 12/27/2019

  7. Cirque du Soleil

    Published: 12/26/2019

  8. The secret history of Monopoly

    Published: 12/25/2019

  9. The invasion of Afghanistan

    Published: 12/24/2019

  10. Fighting cancer

    Published: 12/23/2019

  11. The creation of Abuja

    Published: 12/20/2019

  12. Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder

    Published: 12/19/2019

  13. The Romanian revolution

    Published: 12/18/2019

  14. Women and the Sabarimala temple

    Published: 12/17/2019

  15. Black GIs during World War Two

    Published: 12/16/2019

  16. The attack on India's parliament

    Published: 12/13/2019

  17. The killing of Amadou Diallo

    Published: 12/12/2019

  18. The IRA siege at Balcombe Street

    Published: 12/10/2019

  19. The battle of the Louvre pyramid

    Published: 12/9/2019

  20. The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro

    Published: 12/6/2019

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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.