1498 Episodo

  1. The Cutter Incident

    Publicado: 21/10/2020

  2. Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'

    Publicado: 20/10/2020

  3. Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

    Publicado: 19/10/2020

  4. Saddam Hussein's big movie project

    Publicado: 16/10/2020

  5. The US Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Publicado: 15/10/2020

  6. The last of the Kazakh herders

    Publicado: 14/10/2020

  7. The end of the Lebanese Civil War

    Publicado: 13/10/2020

  8. The launch of CNN

    Publicado: 12/10/2020

  9. The Battle of Lewisham

    Publicado: 9/10/2020

  10. Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain

    Publicado: 8/10/2020

  11. Fighting racism on the dancefloor

    Publicado: 7/10/2020

  12. Britain's first black woman headteacher

    Publicado: 6/10/2020

  13. The voyage of the Empire Windrush

    Publicado: 5/10/2020

  14. The house by the lake

    Publicado: 2/10/2020

  15. Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales

    Publicado: 1/10/2020

  16. The founding of Google

    Publicado: 30/9/2020

  17. The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti

    Publicado: 29/9/2020

  18. The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser

    Publicado: 28/9/2020

  19. Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000

    Publicado: 25/9/2020

  20. Blackwater killed my son

    Publicado: 24/9/2020

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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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