A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
World Service,·478 episodes
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
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
05 Oct 2019,·53 mins
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
28 Sep 2019,·53 mins
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
21 Sep 2019,·53 mins
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
14 Sep 2019,·53 mins
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.
07 Sep 2019,·53 mins
Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone
31 Aug 2019,·53 mins
Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children
24 Aug 2019,·53 mins
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
17 Aug 2019,·53 mins
Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.
10 Aug 2019,·53 mins
The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.
03 Aug 2019,·53 mins
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China
27 Jul 2019,·53 mins
