1508 Episodes

  1. The Bluetooth story

    Published: 4/4/2024

  2. Sweden's pioneering paternity leave

    Published: 4/3/2024

  3. The man who invented the seat belt

    Published: 4/2/2024

  4. Fifty years of Abba

    Published: 3/31/2024

  5. Surviving the Rwandan genocide

    Published: 3/29/2024

  6. The founding of Nato

    Published: 3/28/2024

  7. Britain's first beach for nudists

    Published: 3/27/2024

  8. The Heimlich Manoeuvre

    Published: 3/26/2024

  9. Britain's Mirpuri migration

    Published: 3/25/2024

  10. Wham! in China

    Published: 3/22/2024

  11. Discovering the Terracotta Army

    Published: 3/21/2024

  12. The 'comfort women' of World War Two

    Published: 3/20/2024

  13. Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution

    Published: 3/19/2024

  14. Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write

    Published: 3/18/2024

  15. The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    Published: 3/15/2024

  16. Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero

    Published: 3/14/2024

  17. Paraguay adopts its second language

    Published: 3/13/2024

  18. Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

    Published: 3/12/2024

  19. 11M: The day Madrid was bombed

    Published: 3/11/2024

  20. MH370: The plane that vanished

    Published: 3/8/2024

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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.