1518 Episodes

  1. Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs

    Published: 4/14/2021

  2. How a worm helped explain human development

    Published: 4/13/2021

  3. The US Supreme Court's first woman justice

    Published: 4/12/2021

  4. Discovering the Jet Stream

    Published: 4/9/2021

  5. From Leningrad to St Petersburg

    Published: 4/8/2021

  6. David Attenborough's first expedition

    Published: 4/7/2021

  7. Mexico's female serial killer

    Published: 4/6/2021

  8. The women who reclaimed the night

    Published: 4/5/2021

  9. Black Jesus

    Published: 4/2/2021

  10. Kidnapped on an orchid hunt

    Published: 4/1/2021

  11. Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

    Published: 3/31/2021

  12. When the prisoners ran the prison

    Published: 3/30/2021

  13. Anorexia nervosa

    Published: 3/29/2021

  14. South Africa takes on big pharma

    Published: 3/25/2021

  15. The woman who got America talking about sex

    Published: 3/24/2021

  16. Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’

    Published: 3/23/2021

  17. The Ulster Workers' Strike

    Published: 3/22/2021

  18. The dirtiest chess match in history

    Published: 3/19/2021

  19. Mars-500 isolation experiment

    Published: 3/18/2021

  20. Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden

    Published: 3/17/2021

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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.