1518 Episodes

  1. The death of Hitler

    Published: 5/5/2020

  2. The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany

    Published: 5/4/2020

  3. Hiroshima's trees of hope

    Published: 5/1/2020

  4. The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute

    Published: 4/30/2020

  5. The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator

    Published: 4/29/2020

  6. The 1957 flu that killed a million people

    Published: 4/28/2020

  7. Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia

    Published: 4/27/2020

  8. Tennessee Williams on the BBC

    Published: 4/24/2020

  9. The Brompton Manley Ventilator

    Published: 4/23/2020

  10. Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'

    Published: 4/22/2020

  11. The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

    Published: 4/21/2020

  12. The Deepwater Horizon disaster

    Published: 4/20/2020

  13. Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world

    Published: 4/17/2020

  14. A space crash

    Published: 4/17/2020

  15. When Skylab fell to Earth

    Published: 4/16/2020

  16. The last men on the Moon

    Published: 4/15/2020

  17. The first iPhone

    Published: 4/14/2020

  18. Nasa's female aquanauts

    Published: 4/14/2020

  19. The unlikely pioneers of online shopping

    Published: 4/10/2020

  20. Six Degrees: The first online social network

    Published: 4/8/2020

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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.