1472 Episoder

  1. Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer

    Publisert: 2.8.2021
  2. The Tsunami and Fukushima

    Publisert: 30.7.2021
  3. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    Publisert: 29.7.2021
  4. The soldier who never surrendered

    Publisert: 28.7.2021
  5. The birth of Karaoke

    Publisert: 27.7.2021
  6. Japan's Bullet Train

    Publisert: 26.7.2021
  7. When war came to Darfur

    Publisert: 22.7.2021
  8. Surviving Norway's day of terror

    Publisert: 21.7.2021
  9. The Battle of Gondar

    Publisert: 20.7.2021
  10. Domestic violence in Brazil

    Publisert: 19.7.2021
  11. England's summer of riots

    Publisert: 16.7.2021
  12. When the Taliban took Kabul

    Publisert: 15.7.2021
  13. Jane Goodall and chimpanzees

    Publisert: 14.7.2021
  14. Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution

    Publisert: 13.7.2021
  15. The race for the jet engine

    Publisert: 12.7.2021
  16. The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

    Publisert: 9.7.2021
  17. The first World Romani Congress

    Publisert: 8.7.2021
  18. The famine in North Korea

    Publisert: 7.7.2021
  19. Britain's wartime gold

    Publisert: 6.7.2021
  20. Cuba's blindness epidemic

    Publisert: 5.7.2021

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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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