1501 Episodes

  1. Discovery of the 'Hobbit'

    Published: 8/13/2025

  2. Borobudur Temple

    Published: 8/12/2025

  3. The Santa Cruz Massacre

    Published: 8/11/2025

  4. 1965 Singaporean independence

    Published: 8/8/2025

  5. Brazil’s biggest bank heist

    Published: 8/7/2025

  6. The Assam-Tibet earthquake

    Published: 8/6/2025

  7. When Stalin silenced Shostakovich

    Published: 8/5/2025

  8. Nagasaki bomb

    Published: 8/4/2025

  9. Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

    Published: 8/3/2025

  10. Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster

    Published: 8/1/2025

  11. Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town

    Published: 7/31/2025

  12. Cleveland Balloonfest '86

    Published: 7/30/2025

  13. Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui

    Published: 7/29/2025

  14. The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London

    Published: 7/28/2025

  15. A Chorus Line

    Published: 7/25/2025

  16. The invention of Kevlar

    Published: 7/24/2025

  17. President Clinton plays the sax in Prague

    Published: 7/23/2025

  18. The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

    Published: 7/22/2025

  19. Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist

    Published: 7/21/2025

  20. Italo disco

    Published: 7/18/2025

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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.