1472 Episoder

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

    Udgivet: 4.7.2025
  2. Back to the Future

    Udgivet: 3.7.2025
  3. Drill, baby, drill!

    Udgivet: 2.7.2025
  4. Cecil the lion

    Udgivet: 1.7.2025
  5. Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art

    Udgivet: 30.6.2025
  6. Italian happiness trains

    Udgivet: 27.6.2025
  7. The opening of the Medellin Metro

    Udgivet: 26.6.2025
  8. The funeral train for Robert Kennedy

    Udgivet: 25.6.2025
  9. The Czech Freedom Train

    Udgivet: 24.6.2025
  10. The Gratitude Train: France thanks America

    Udgivet: 23.6.2025
  11. Making Jaws

    Udgivet: 20.6.2025
  12. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Udgivet: 19.6.2025
  13. Civil rights swim-in

    Udgivet: 18.6.2025
  14. Charleston church shooting

    Udgivet: 17.6.2025
  15. 'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women

    Udgivet: 16.6.2025
  16. The Schengen Agreement

    Udgivet: 13.6.2025
  17. Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

    Udgivet: 12.6.2025
  18. Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise

    Udgivet: 11.6.2025
  19. The woman born in a prisoner of war camp

    Udgivet: 10.6.2025
  20. World War Two’s Rome escape line

    Udgivet: 9.6.2025

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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.

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