1504 Episodes

  1. Oradour massacre

    Published: 2/4/2025

  2. Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher

    Published: 2/3/2025

  3. English TV lessons in China go primetime

    Published: 1/31/2025

  4. 1968 New York City teachers' strike

    Published: 1/30/2025

  5. Lithuania's 'wolf children'

    Published: 1/29/2025

  6. The Baltic chain protest

    Published: 1/28/2025

  7. The Milltown Cemetery attack

    Published: 1/27/2025

  8. The launch of Windows 95

    Published: 1/24/2025

  9. Replacing the Panchen Lama

    Published: 1/23/2025

  10. The murder of Maurizio Gucci

    Published: 1/22/2025

  11. Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

    Published: 1/21/2025

  12. Hunting the Unabomber

    Published: 1/20/2025

  13. Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine

    Published: 1/17/2025

  14. 'I wrote Schindler's List'

    Published: 1/16/2025

  15. Kobe earthquake

    Published: 1/15/2025

  16. Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction

    Published: 1/14/2025

  17. Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal

    Published: 1/13/2025

  18. The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

    Published: 1/10/2025

  19. The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

    Published: 1/9/2025

  20. The invention of the hotel key card

    Published: 1/8/2025

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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.