1472 Episodes

  1. Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine

    Published: 1/17/2025

  2. 'I wrote Schindler's List'

    Published: 1/16/2025

  3. Kobe earthquake

    Published: 1/15/2025

  4. Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction

    Published: 1/14/2025

  5. Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal

    Published: 1/13/2025

  6. The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

    Published: 1/10/2025

  7. The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

    Published: 1/9/2025

  8. The invention of the hotel key card

    Published: 1/8/2025

  9. Charlie Hebdo attack

    Published: 1/7/2025

  10. Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy

    Published: 1/2/2025

  11. Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire

    Published: 1/1/2025

  12. Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh

    Published: 12/31/2024

  13. Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu

    Published: 12/30/2024

  14. Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition

    Published: 12/27/2024

  15. 'Kimchi war'

    Published: 12/26/2024

  16. Chef to five presidents

    Published: 12/25/2024

  17. When instant noodles came to India

    Published: 12/24/2024

  18. 'I created MasterChef'

    Published: 12/23/2024

  19. Australian republic referendum

    Published: 12/20/2024

  20. Poland's bleak Christmas

    Published: 12/19/2024

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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.