1472 Episodes

  1. Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison

    Published: 12/5/2019

  2. The British sculptor who won over the world

    Published: 12/4/2019

  3. Shackleton

    Published: 12/3/2019

  4. The killing of Pablo Escobar

    Published: 12/2/2019

  5. The first confirmed case of HIV in America

    Published: 11/29/2019

  6. Handing back Uluru

    Published: 11/28/2019

  7. From cakes to computers

    Published: 11/27/2019

  8. India's economic revolution

    Published: 11/26/2019

  9. The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking

    Published: 11/25/2019

  10. Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter

    Published: 11/22/2019

  11. The man who got Delhi on track

    Published: 11/21/2019

  12. I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

    Published: 11/20/2019

  13. The 'Woman in Gold'

    Published: 11/19/2019

  14. The first Tasers

    Published: 11/18/2019

  15. The first Indian to win Miss World

    Published: 11/15/2019

  16. The Love Canal disaster

    Published: 11/14/2019

  17. The demolition of the Babri Masjid

    Published: 11/13/2019

  18. Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail

    Published: 11/12/2019

  19. Memories of Wilfred Owen

    Published: 11/11/2019

  20. The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall

    Published: 11/8/2019

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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.