1518 Episodes

  1. Occupy Wall Street

    Published: 8/26/2020

  2. America's first woman combat pilot

    Published: 8/25/2020

  3. Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer

    Published: 8/24/2020

  4. The siege at Ruby Ridge

    Published: 8/21/2020

  5. The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution

    Published: 8/20/2020

  6. The Guatemalan syphilis scandal

    Published: 8/20/2020

  7. The first modern asthma inhaler

    Published: 8/19/2020

  8. The lost King of England

    Published: 8/18/2020

  9. Surviving Saddam

    Published: 8/17/2020

  10. The invention of the modern ventilator

    Published: 8/14/2020

  11. Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

    Published: 8/13/2020

  12. Beirut's Hotel War

    Published: 8/12/2020

  13. Bremen’s Elephant Statue

    Published: 8/11/2020

  14. Radar and World War Two

    Published: 8/10/2020

  15. The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

    Published: 8/6/2020

  16. The battle of Midway

    Published: 8/5/2020

  17. The internment of Japanese Americans

    Published: 8/4/2020

  18. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Published: 8/3/2020

  19. The death of Heinrich Himmler

    Published: 7/31/2020

  20. Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

    Published: 7/30/2020

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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.