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Witness History Episodes

  1. 09/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  2. 08/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  3. 07/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  4. 06/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  5. 03/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  6. 02/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  7. 01/07/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  8. The final journey of Chief Long Wolf

    In 1997, the remains of a Lakota leader were returned from London to South Dakota

  9. Hawaii becomes the 50th American state

    In March 1959, the Hawaiian Admission Act was passed

  10. 26/06/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  11. WW1: The Battle of the Somme

    BBC Archive recordings with veterans of the 1916 battle

  12. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  13. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  14. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  15. The discovery of Lyme disease

    In 1975, a medical breakthrough led to the identification and naming of Lyme disease

  16. The discovery of Mungo Man

    On 26 February 1974, Dr Jim Bowler discovered a 42,000-year old skeleton in Australia

  17. Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march

    In June 1987, hundreds of women took part in a peace march against the division of Cyprus

  18. 50 years since the Soweto Uprising

    A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked the Soweto Uprising in 1976

  19. The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia

    In 1993, separatist forces took Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia

  20. Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king

    In 1970 King Hussein of Jordan escaped unharmed after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade

  21. The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters

    In 1897, Paul Shishkoff lived next door to the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

  22. Picasso and the Surrealist summer

    In 1937 some of the 20th Century's best known Surrealist artists are on holiday in France

  23. Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist

    In 1978, Rostropovich lost Soviet citizenship for “unpatriotic activity”

  24. Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island

    In 1964, Nelson Mandela was put in the maximum security prison on Robben Island

  25. The creation of Inspector Montalbano

    In March 1994, the first Inspector Montalbano mystery, The Shape of Water, was published

  26. Listen live

    The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre

    How mass student demonstrations in May 1989 led to bloodshed in Beijing (R)

  27. Australia's first Big Thing

    In 1963, a giant sculpture of a Scotsman began one of the country's quirkiest phenomena

  28. The first Irish language television channel

    In 1996, Ireland launched its first television channel broadcasting exclusively in Irish

  29. Recording the Eichmann interviews

    In the 1950s, a journalist recorded hours of interview with the Nazi Adolf Eichmann

  30. Filming Titanic in Mexico

    In 1997, Titanic - one of the most successful films in movie history – was made in Mexico

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