1509 Episodes

  1. King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical

    Published: 3/11/2025

  2. The invention of GPS

    Published: 3/10/2025

  3. How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965

    Published: 3/7/2025

  4. The Great Toyota War

    Published: 3/6/2025

  5. The US invasion of Panama

    Published: 3/5/2025

  6. The invention of the shopping trolley

    Published: 3/4/2025

  7. The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp

    Published: 3/3/2025

  8. Africa’s stolen Metis children

    Published: 2/28/2025

  9. Surviving Chile's tsunami

    Published: 2/27/2025

  10. Denmark’s Inuit children experiment

    Published: 2/26/2025

  11. The Nellie massacre

    Published: 2/25/2025

  12. Discovering the structure of haemoglobin

    Published: 2/24/2025

  13. Assassination of Malcolm X

    Published: 2/21/2025

  14. Murder at the Berlin Wall

    Published: 2/20/2025

  15. Bolivia’s first indigenous president

    Published: 2/19/2025

  16. Bo: The death of a language

    Published: 2/18/2025

  17. The world's longest kiss

    Published: 2/17/2025

  18. Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita

    Published: 2/14/2025

  19. Paul Keating's Redfern speech

    Published: 2/13/2025

  20. Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech

    Published: 2/12/2025

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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.