1452 Episodes

  1. Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town

    Published: 6/6/2025

  2. The discovery of the first exoplanets

    Published: 6/5/2025

  3. Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

    Published: 6/4/2025

  4. The world’s largest model train set

    Published: 6/3/2025

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

    Published: 6/2/2025

  6. The Battle of the Beanfield

    Published: 5/30/2025

  7. The legacy of The Pirate Bay

    Published: 5/29/2025

  8. Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart

    Published: 5/28/2025

  9. The Tragically Hip's final gig

    Published: 5/27/2025

  10. 'I wrote the Champions League anthem'

    Published: 5/26/2025

  11. Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer

    Published: 5/23/2025

  12. The founding of Magnum Photos

    Published: 5/22/2025

  13. Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer

    Published: 5/21/2025

  14. Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series

    Published: 5/20/2025

  15. Lunch atop a Skyscraper

    Published: 5/19/2025

  16. Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment

    Published: 5/16/2025

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

    Published: 5/15/2025

  18. The founding of the Warsaw Pact

    Published: 5/14/2025

  19. Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals

    Published: 5/13/2025

  20. Intervision Song Contest

    Published: 5/12/2025

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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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.