The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

World Service,478 episodes

Episodes

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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
Venezuela's oil bonanza
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis
02 Mar 2019,53 mins
The curse of Agent Orange
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.
23 Feb 2019,53 mins
Iceland jails its bankers
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.
16 Feb 2019,53 mins
The last days of Hitler
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising
09 Feb 2019,53 mins
The Iranian Revolution
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979
02 Feb 2019,53 mins
Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.
26 Jan 2019,53 mins
Strikers in Saris
How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.
19 Jan 2019,53 mins
When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault
12 Jan 2019,53 mins
Vikings in North America
Exciting discovery in Canada plus a rebel attack in Central America and Brazilian booty.
05 Jan 2019,53 mins
UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
The most striking and well documented UFO "sightings" there have ever been.
29 Dec 2018,53 mins