The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

World Service,478 episodes

Episodes

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New Zealand’s first dinosaur and India’s plague outbreak
How New Zealand's first dinosaur was discovered and the pneumonic plague in India
21 Sep 2024,51 mins
Ethiopian history
It’s 50 years since Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup
14 Sep 2024,50 mins
Marriage bars and a Moon mission
The law that banned married women from working and Apollo 13's attempted trip to the Moon
07 Sep 2024,49 mins
Space travel and Mary Poppins
Befriending Soviet cosmonauts and why the author of Mary Poppins hated the film
31 Aug 2024,51 mins
Nazis in Egypt and Spain's La Tomatina
Nazis in Egypt and the origins of the largest food fight in the world
24 Aug 2024,51 mins
Indonesian’s independence and the last Olympic art competition
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes
17 Aug 2024,51 mins
American presidents
It's 50 years since Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign
10 Aug 2024,51 mins
Ice Bucket Challenge and Bulgaria's dancing bears
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
03 Aug 2024,51 mins
Moscow Metro and the Olympics
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
27 Jul 2024,50 mins
Cyprus: Coups and clubbing
Max Pearson presents this week's Witness History interviews on the history of Cyprus
20 Jul 2024,51 mins
Brazil's ban on women in football and the first air fryer
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
13 Jul 2024,50 mins
Subway Art and terror in Georgia
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
06 Jul 2024,50 mins
The Sagrada Família and Hello Kitty
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes
29 Jun 2024,50 mins
Bungee jumping and the Benidorm boom
How holidays evolved from luxury cruises to exotic locations
22 Jun 2024,50 mins
Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria and the Irish shopworkers strike
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
15 Jun 2024,50 mins
The weather report that delayed D-Day and panda-mania in Taiwan
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
08 Jun 2024,51 mins
South American revolutionaries and the first Aboriginal MP
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes
01 Jun 2024,50 mins
The first Air Jordan and Imelda Marcos's 3,000 pairs of shoes
Max Pearson presents a collection footwear themed Witness History programmes.
25 May 2024,50 mins
Independence in French Polynesia and the 'Queen of Cuba'
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia, and catching spy Ana Montes
18 May 2024,51 mins
India’s ambitious ID scheme and the iconic Princess Diana photo
A unique digital ID for one billion Indians and Princess Diana alone at the Taj Mahal
11 May 2024,51 mins
Paraguay’s ‘disappeared’ and the history of the Channel Tunnel
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there
04 May 2024,50 mins
Thirty years since the first free elections in South Africa
Max Pearson presents a collection of this weeks Witness History Episodes
27 Apr 2024,51 mins
Ebola outbreak and the Friendship Train returns
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
20 Apr 2024,50 mins
The history of art heists
Recovering The Scream, the story of St Teresa of Avila and the Kampala terror attacks
13 Apr 2024,50 mins
Swedish History
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
06 Apr 2024,50 mins
Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
The 75th anniversary of Nato, Britain's Mirpuri migration, and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
30 Mar 2024,52 mins
Chinese history
50 years of the Terracotta Army and the father of Pinyin
23 Mar 2024,52 mins
Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
16 Mar 2024,52 mins
Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
09 Mar 2024,51 mins
Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
02 Mar 2024,51 mins