1503 Episodes

  1. The 'ghost town' of Namibia

    Published: 3/31/2025

  2. The father of Ethio-Jazz

    Published: 3/28/2025

  3. Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela

    Published: 3/27/2025

  4. The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović

    Published: 3/26/2025

  5. Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria

    Published: 3/25/2025

  6. The Germanwings plane crash

    Published: 3/24/2025

  7. The visionary behind the European Space Agency

    Published: 3/21/2025

  8. The historic handshake in space

    Published: 3/20/2025

  9. In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'

    Published: 3/19/2025

  10. First spacewalk

    Published: 3/18/2025

  11. The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme

    Published: 3/17/2025

  12. Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia

    Published: 3/14/2025

  13. The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’

    Published: 3/13/2025

  14. The Capitol Crawl

    Published: 3/12/2025

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

    Published: 3/11/2025

  16. The invention of GPS

    Published: 3/10/2025

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

    Published: 3/7/2025

  18. The Great Toyota War

    Published: 3/6/2025

  19. The US invasion of Panama

    Published: 3/5/2025

  20. The invention of the shopping trolley

    Published: 3/4/2025

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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.