1504 Episodes

  1. Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships

    Published: 4/25/2024

  2. Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

    Published: 4/24/2024

  3. Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

    Published: 4/23/2024

  4. South Africa's referendum on apartheid

    Published: 4/22/2024

  5. Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

    Published: 4/19/2024

  6. Deadly Everest avalanche

    Published: 4/18/2024

  7. West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

    Published: 4/17/2024

  8. The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

    Published: 4/16/2024

  9. Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

    Published: 4/15/2024

  10. Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

    Published: 4/12/2024

  11. St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

    Published: 4/11/2024

  12. The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

    Published: 4/10/2024

  13. How Lake Karla in Greece was drained

    Published: 4/9/2024

  14. The 2010 Kampala bombings

    Published: 4/8/2024

  15. Bonus: The Black 14

    Published: 4/6/2024

  16. Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day

    Published: 4/5/2024

  17. The Bluetooth story

    Published: 4/4/2024

  18. Sweden's pioneering paternity leave

    Published: 4/3/2024

  19. The man who invented the seat belt

    Published: 4/2/2024

  20. Fifty years of Abba

    Published: 3/31/2024

18 / 76

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.