1501 Episodes

  1. The 'Turbot War'

    Published: 7/17/2025

  2. Greece’s debt crisis

    Published: 7/16/2025

  3. The Iran nuclear deal

    Published: 7/15/2025

  4. The start of Voice of America

    Published: 7/14/2025

  5. The man who said ‘no’ to Disney

    Published: 7/11/2025

  6. Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina

    Published: 7/10/2025

  7. Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies

    Published: 7/9/2025

  8. The mystery of Evita’s corpse

    Published: 7/8/2025

  9. Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'

    Published: 7/7/2025

  10. Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger

    Published: 7/4/2025

  11. Back to the Future

    Published: 7/3/2025

  12. Drill, baby, drill!

    Published: 7/2/2025

  13. Cecil the lion

    Published: 7/1/2025

  14. Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art

    Published: 6/30/2025

  15. Italian happiness trains

    Published: 6/27/2025

  16. The opening of the Medellin Metro

    Published: 6/26/2025

  17. The funeral train for Robert Kennedy

    Published: 6/25/2025

  18. The Czech Freedom Train

    Published: 6/24/2025

  19. The Gratitude Train: France thanks America

    Published: 6/23/2025

  20. Making Jaws

    Published: 6/20/2025

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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.