1472 Episoder

  1. The death of Trayvon Martin

    Udgivet: 24.2.2022
  2. The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2

    Udgivet: 23.2.2022
  3. Nixon in China

    Udgivet: 22.2.2022
  4. The first sex worker strike

    Udgivet: 21.2.2022
  5. The world's first civil union

    Udgivet: 18.2.2022
  6. Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

    Udgivet: 17.2.2022
  7. The Berlin Patient

    Udgivet: 16.2.2022
  8. "Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces

    Udgivet: 15.2.2022
  9. The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia

    Udgivet: 14.2.2022
  10. The 1972 mass killings in Burundi

    Udgivet: 11.2.2022
  11. Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'

    Udgivet: 10.2.2022
  12. Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik

    Udgivet: 9.2.2022
  13. The invention of Google Maps

    Udgivet: 8.2.2022
  14. The demise of the Soviet Union

    Udgivet: 7.2.2022
  15. The first Emirati female teacher

    Udgivet: 3.2.2022
  16. The day the world looked up

    Udgivet: 2.2.2022
  17. The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl

    Udgivet: 1.2.2022
  18. The Good Friday Agreement

    Udgivet: 28.1.2022
  19. IRA gun-running in America

    Udgivet: 27.1.2022
  20. The Grand Hotel Bombing

    Udgivet: 26.1.2022

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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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