1507 Episodes

  1. The mystery of France's lost king

    Published: 1/9/2024

  2. The world’s first lesbian couple to get married

    Published: 1/8/2024

  3. What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec

    Published: 1/5/2024

  4. The Hindenburg airship disaster

    Published: 1/4/2024

  5. The invention of the wingsuit

    Published: 1/3/2024

  6. Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone

    Published: 1/2/2024

  7. Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe

    Published: 1/1/2024

  8. Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'

    Published: 12/29/2023

  9. The disputed history of pad Thai

    Published: 12/28/2023

  10. Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food

    Published: 12/27/2023

  11. Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit

    Published: 12/26/2023

  12. Inventing Nutella

    Published: 12/25/2023

  13. 'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

    Published: 12/22/2023

  14. Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

    Published: 12/21/2023

  15. The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda

    Published: 12/20/2023

  16. The assassination of King Faisal

    Published: 12/19/2023

  17. Tsunami devastates Samoa

    Published: 12/18/2023

  18. The funeral of Nelson Mandela

    Published: 12/15/2023

  19. Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

    Published: 12/14/2023

  20. Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

    Published: 12/13/2023

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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.