1472 Episodes

  1. The 'graveyard' for communist statues

    Published: 6/29/2023

  2. Sampoong department store disaster

    Published: 6/28/2023

  3. First reports of Ebola

    Published: 6/27/2023

  4. JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech

    Published: 6/26/2023

  5. My dad played golf on the moon

    Published: 6/23/2023

  6. The Empire Windrush arrives

    Published: 6/22/2023

  7. Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub

    Published: 6/21/2023

  8. The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country

    Published: 6/20/2023

  9. Uprising in East Germany

    Published: 6/19/2023

  10. Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

    Published: 6/16/2023

  11. Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine

    Published: 6/15/2023

  12. Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer

    Published: 6/14/2023

  13. A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo

    Published: 6/13/2023

  14. Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

    Published: 6/12/2023

  15. 1955 Le Mans disaster

    Published: 6/9/2023

  16. Last communist march before Hitler

    Published: 6/8/2023

  17. Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder

    Published: 6/6/2023

  18. Inuit children taken from families

    Published: 6/5/2023

  19. The first Indian woman to conquer Everest

    Published: 6/2/2023

  20. Tragedy on Everest

    Published: 6/1/2023

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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.