1494 Episodes

  1. Saving lives on D-Day

    Published: 6/6/2024

  2. The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

    Published: 6/5/2024

  3. Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite

    Published: 6/4/2024

  4. ‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan

    Published: 6/3/2024

  5. The commercial that changed advertising: 1984

    Published: 5/31/2024

  6. The Flint water crisis

    Published: 5/30/2024

  7. The first Aboriginal MP

    Published: 5/29/2024

  8. The first ever quintuplets

    Published: 5/28/2024

  9. Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'

    Published: 5/27/2024

  10. How Air Jordans were created

    Published: 5/24/2024

  11. Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection

    Published: 5/23/2024

  12. Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession

    Published: 5/22/2024

  13. How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world

    Published: 5/21/2024

  14. Bata: Pioneering shoemakers

    Published: 5/20/2024

  15. When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught

    Published: 5/17/2024

  16. Baghdad heavy metal

    Published: 5/16/2024

  17. How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia

    Published: 5/15/2024

  18. The creation of the state of Israel

    Published: 5/14/2024

  19. The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians

    Published: 5/13/2024

  20. Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal

    Published: 5/10/2024

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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.