1503 Episodes

  1. Inventing Chicken Manchurian

    Published: 12/27/2022

  2. Creating ciabatta bread

    Published: 12/26/2022

  3. Chile mine rescue

    Published: 12/23/2022

  4. Grozny siege

    Published: 12/22/2022

  5. Colombia's 'false positives' killings

    Published: 12/21/2022

  6. The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

    Published: 12/20/2022

  7. Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service

    Published: 12/19/2022

  8. Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

    Published: 12/16/2022

  9. Soviet fashionista

    Published: 12/15/2022

  10. Returning to District Six

    Published: 12/14/2022

  11. The Nazi occupation of Jersey

    Published: 12/13/2022

  12. Mongolian revolution

    Published: 12/12/2022

  13. Creating Teletubbies

    Published: 12/9/2022

  14. 'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam

    Published: 12/8/2022

  15. The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

    Published: 12/7/2022

  16. Demolishing the Babri Masjid

    Published: 12/6/2022

  17. Quebec’s 1995 referendum

    Published: 12/5/2022

  18. Miss World protest

    Published: 12/2/2022

  19. The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag

    Published: 12/1/2022

  20. The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on

    Published: 11/30/2022

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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.