A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
World Service,·488 episodes
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
21 Nov 2020,·53 mins
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
14 Nov 2020,·53 mins
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
07 Nov 2020,·53 mins
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
31 Oct 2020,·53 mins
Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood
24 Oct 2020,·53 mins
The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.
17 Oct 2020,·53 mins
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's
10 Oct 2020,·53 mins
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.
03 Oct 2020,·53 mins
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos
26 Sep 2020,·53 mins
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina
19 Sep 2020,·53 mins
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit
12 Sep 2020,·53 mins
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman
05 Sep 2020,·53 mins
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor
29 Aug 2020,·53 mins
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.
22 Aug 2020,·53 mins
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
15 Aug 2020,·53 mins
It’s 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
08 Aug 2020,·53 mins
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
01 Aug 2020,·53 mins
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
25 Jul 2020,·53 mins
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
18 Jul 2020,·53 mins
A government report into the riots of 1967 warned that white racism was dividing America
11 Jul 2020,·53 mins
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
04 Jul 2020,·53 mins
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
27 Jun 2020,·53 mins
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
20 Jun 2020,·53 mins
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.
13 Jun 2020,·53 mins
How a bloody revolution changed East Africa, the start of the WHO and remembering Christo
06 Jun 2020,·53 mins
South Korea's Gwangju uprising; changing the way we eat; plus protecting Congo's forests
30 May 2020,·53 mins
How criminals thrived in London during the Blitz, 3D printers and the 1980 Miami riots.
23 May 2020,·53 mins
Why it took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.
16 May 2020,·53 mins
Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe.
09 May 2020,·53 mins
A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.
02 May 2020,·53 mins
