The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

World Service,488 episodes

Episodes

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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
Skiing and two-headed dogs
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
24 Feb 2024,52 mins
Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
17 Feb 2024,51 mins
Inspirational black women
Inspirational black women throughout history
10 Feb 2024,51 mins
Internet cafes and Doomsday seeds
The opening of the first commercial internet cafe and storing seeds in an Artic vault
03 Feb 2024,52 mins
Traitors and treachery
Historical figures branded traitors
27 Jan 2024,52 mins
Lady Tarzan and Ibadan Zoo
Why Nigeria went went wild for Ibadan Zoo and the Indian campaigner nicknamed Lady Tarzan
20 Jan 2024,51 mins
The first lesbian couple to get married and World Laughter Day
A collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service
13 Jan 2024,51 mins
Hindenburg disaster and wingsuits
Herb Morrison's iconic broadcast about the airship crash and the invention of wingsuits
06 Jan 2024,52 mins
Pad Thai, kiwis and the chef Ken Hom
The disputed history of Thailand’s national dish and how Ken Hom promoted Chinese cookery
30 Dec 2023,52 mins
Tsunamis and Caster Semenya
The tsunami that devastated Samoa and when Caster Semenya faced questions over her gender
23 Dec 2023,51 mins
Mandela's funeral and Tsar's reburial
Nelson Mandela's daughter talks about her father's funeral and Russia buries its past
16 Dec 2023,51 mins
Doom and Danish brains
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
09 Dec 2023,51 mins
Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids
The Peruvian bird saved from the brink of extinction and the Cabbage Patch Kids craze
02 Dec 2023,52 mins
Zambia celebrates independence and the invention of bubble tea
An African nation is born in 1964 and a new invention changes the tea drinking world
25 Nov 2023,51 mins
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Icelandic volcano eruption stops European air travel in 2010 and inventing the EpiPen
18 Nov 2023,52 mins
Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
11 Nov 2023,52 mins
Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Aleida Guevara on being a doctor in Angola's civil war and Jane Seymour on Fashion Aid
04 Nov 2023,51 mins
Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
28 Oct 2023,51 mins
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week
21 Oct 2023,50 mins
The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated
14 Oct 2023,51 mins