A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
World Service,·489 episodes
A million die in 1957 flu, conflict in the Galapagos islands and trees in Hiroshima.
02 May 2020,·53 mins
The grandson of the last US slave, Pakistan's welfare hero and the Deepwater disaster.
25 Apr 2020,·53 mins
50 years since the near disaster on the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon.
18 Apr 2020,·53 mins
Memories of milestones from webcams to social networks, from the iPhone to home-shopping.
11 Apr 2020,·53 mins
Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron, plus Muslims in China and a Swedish warship
04 Apr 2020,·53 mins
How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate lost friends with a quilt.
28 Mar 2020,·53 mins
Putting an observatory in space; China's cure for malaria; the "Red Scare" in Hollywood.
21 Mar 2020,·53 mins
Eyewitnesses accounts of battling deadly viruses from the 1918 flu, to Ebola and SARS.
14 Mar 2020,·53 mins
How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2.
07 Mar 2020,·53 mins
How a former prisoner fought to free her friends, an Antarctic mystery, and rebel nuns
29 Feb 2020,·53 mins
Environmentalists save the ice continent; how meditation changes the brain; Nigerian art.
22 Feb 2020,·53 mins
The origins of the boy wizard, plus Mao's Little Red Book and Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
15 Feb 2020,·53 mins
London's first black policeman, a new sign language, and the release of Nelson Mandela
08 Feb 2020,·53 mins
The EU in the 1950s, the British royal scandal and the self-made female millionaire.
01 Feb 2020,·53 mins
How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.
25 Jan 2020,·53 mins
East Germany's secret police; killing Osama Bin Laden; saving aristocrats' houses
18 Jan 2020,·53 mins
Bringing laptops into education; the battle for Fallujah; environmentalist Chico Mendes.
11 Jan 2020,·53 mins
Environmental warnings from 1972, El Salvador, East German punks and the Chippendales.
04 Jan 2020,·53 mins
The Soviet-Afghan war, the invention of chemotherapy, and Cirque du Soleil.
28 Dec 2019,·53 mins
In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
21 Dec 2019,·53 mins
A medical experiment that brought the catatonic back to life; and an IRA siege in the 70s
14 Dec 2019,·53 mins
The life and death of Reinaldo Arenas, plus Henry Moore and tracking down Pablo Escobar
07 Dec 2019,·53 mins
The scientist who pioneered synthesised speech. Plus the first US AIDS case. .
30 Nov 2019,·53 mins
An atrocity in El Salvador, the first Taser, and building the Delhi metro
23 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen
16 Nov 2019,·53 mins
'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert
09 Nov 2019,·53 mins
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
02 Nov 2019,·53 mins
A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.
26 Oct 2019,·53 mins
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
19 Oct 2019,·53 mins
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
12 Oct 2019,·53 mins
