A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
World Service,·478 episodes
Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation
04 Jun 2022,·49 mins
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
28 May 2022,·49 mins
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
21 May 2022,·49 mins
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallajökull erupts
14 May 2022,·49 mins
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
07 May 2022,·49 mins
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic “birth of a nation”
30 Apr 2022,·49 mins
What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?
23 Apr 2022,·49 mins
How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine
16 Apr 2022,·49 mins
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
09 Apr 2022,·49 mins
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
02 Apr 2022,·49 mins
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
26 Mar 2022,·49 mins
From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.
19 Mar 2022,·49 mins
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
12 Mar 2022,·49 mins
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
05 Mar 2022,·49 mins
How Russia seized Crimea in 2014; the death of Trayvon Martin; Nigeria's film industry.
26 Feb 2022,·49 mins
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
19 Feb 2022,·49 mins
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
12 Feb 2022,·49 mins
Kazakhstan’s new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
05 Feb 2022,·49 mins
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
29 Jan 2022,·49 mins
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
22 Jan 2022,·49 mins
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
15 Jan 2022,·49 mins
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule
08 Jan 2022,·49 mins
The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly
01 Jan 2022,·49 mins
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
25 Dec 2021,·49 mins
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
18 Dec 2021,·49 mins
Virginity tests for women joining the Indonesian police and the battle to end them
11 Dec 2021,·49 mins
A history of HIV/Aids over the past 40 years.
04 Dec 2021,·49 mins
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
27 Nov 2021,·49 mins
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
20 Nov 2021,·49 mins
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
13 Nov 2021,·49 mins
