1518 Episodes

  1. Adrift for 76 days

    Published: 7/29/2020

  2. Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

    Published: 7/28/2020

  3. The writer who put Latinos centre stage

    Published: 7/27/2020

  4. The fastest vaccine ever developed

    Published: 7/24/2020

  5. The first safe house for Afghan women

    Published: 7/23/2020

  6. The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

    Published: 7/22/2020

  7. The Million Man March

    Published: 7/21/2020

  8. The man who tried to kill Hitler

    Published: 7/20/2020

  9. South Korea's 1980s prison camps

    Published: 7/17/2020

  10. The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors

    Published: 7/16/2020

  11. Returning Ethiopia's looted history

    Published: 7/15/2020

  12. How Club Med changed holidays

    Published: 7/14/2020

  13. The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel

    Published: 7/13/2020

  14. The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

    Published: 7/10/2020

  15. The death of Frida Kahlo

    Published: 7/9/2020

  16. Montreal's 'Night of Terror'

    Published: 7/8/2020

  17. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

    Published: 7/7/2020

  18. The doctor who discovered how cholera spread

    Published: 7/6/2020

  19. How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams

    Published: 7/3/2020

  20. The lost Nazi-era art trove

    Published: 7/2/2020

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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.