1504 Episodes

  1. Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975

    Published: 4/29/2025

  2. Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle

    Published: 4/28/2025

  3. The death of Adolf Hitler

    Published: 4/25/2025

  4. Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

    Published: 4/24/2025

  5. Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'

    Published: 4/23/2025

  6. The creation of YouTube

    Published: 4/22/2025

  7. Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

    Published: 4/21/2025

  8. The origin of World Book Day

    Published: 4/18/2025

  9. Clearing landmines in Cambodia

    Published: 4/17/2025

  10. The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia

    Published: 4/16/2025

  11. The invention of the white LED lightbulb

    Published: 4/16/2025

  12. The Bali Nine drug smuggling case

    Published: 4/14/2025

  13. Germany’s ‘Green Belt’

    Published: 4/11/2025

  14. Oklahoma City bombing

    Published: 4/10/2025

  15. Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war

    Published: 4/9/2025

  16. The Reichstag fire

    Published: 4/8/2025

  17. The UN retreat from Somalia

    Published: 4/7/2025

  18. Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy

    Published: 4/4/2025

  19. JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech

    Published: 4/3/2025

  20. The Wonder Woman of DC Comics

    Published: 4/2/2025

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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.