1508 Episodes

  1. Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star

    Published: 6/2/2025

  2. The Battle of the Beanfield

    Published: 5/30/2025

  3. The legacy of The Pirate Bay

    Published: 5/29/2025

  4. Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart

    Published: 5/28/2025

  5. The Tragically Hip's final gig

    Published: 5/27/2025

  6. 'I wrote the Champions League anthem'

    Published: 5/26/2025

  7. Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer

    Published: 5/23/2025

  8. The founding of Magnum Photos

    Published: 5/22/2025

  9. Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer

    Published: 5/21/2025

  10. Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series

    Published: 5/20/2025

  11. Lunch atop a Skyscraper

    Published: 5/19/2025

  12. Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment

    Published: 5/16/2025

  13. Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants

    Published: 5/15/2025

  14. The founding of the Warsaw Pact

    Published: 5/14/2025

  15. Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals

    Published: 5/13/2025

  16. Intervision Song Contest

    Published: 5/12/2025

  17. Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group

    Published: 5/9/2025

  18. VE Day celebrations

    Published: 5/8/2025

  19. Sinking of the Lusitania

    Published: 5/7/2025

  20. The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker

    Published: 5/6/2025

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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.