The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

World Service,488 episodes

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Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
28 Sep 2019,53 mins
The Cambridge spy network
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
21 Sep 2019,53 mins
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
14 Sep 2019,53 mins
The outbreak of World War Two
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.
07 Sep 2019,53 mins
The Kindertransport children
Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone
31 Aug 2019,53 mins
The return of the wolf
Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children
24 Aug 2019,53 mins
The division of Kashmir
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
17 Aug 2019,53 mins
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.
10 Aug 2019,53 mins
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.
03 Aug 2019,53 mins
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China
27 Jul 2019,53 mins
Exploring space
To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.
20 Jul 2019,53 mins
Kenya's ivory inferno
Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon
13 Jul 2019,53 mins
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.
06 Jul 2019,53 mins
The Stonewall riot
The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22
29 Jun 2019,53 mins
The assassination of Medgar Evers
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
22 Jun 2019,53 mins
The first anti-psychotic drug
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
15 Jun 2019,53 mins
D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
08 Jun 2019,53 mins
Tiananmen Square
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
01 Jun 2019,53 mins
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
25 May 2019,53 mins
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
18 May 2019,53 mins
The war on drugs
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
11 May 2019,53 mins
The Malayan Emergency
Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"
04 May 2019,53 mins
The al Yamamah arms deals
The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"
27 Apr 2019,53 mins
The Columbine school shooting
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
20 Apr 2019,53 mins
The rise of Hindu nationalism
A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.
13 Apr 2019,53 mins
Abolishing the army
How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.
06 Apr 2019,53 mins
Drama in the British parliament
A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.
30 Mar 2019,53 mins
Autism and the MMR vaccine
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
23 Mar 2019,53 mins
China's breakthrough malaria cure
How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria
16 Mar 2019,53 mins
I was abused by a President
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins
09 Mar 2019,53 mins