The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

World Service,478 episodes

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When Eritrea silenced its critics
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
06 Nov 2021,49 mins
The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
30 Oct 2021,49 mins
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
23 Oct 2021,49 mins
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
16 Oct 2021,49 mins
Black history: Britain and race
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
09 Oct 2021,49 mins
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
02 Oct 2021,49 mins
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy
25 Sep 2021,49 mins
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
18 Sep 2021,49 mins
9/11 and the war on terror
A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.
11 Sep 2021,49 mins
Surviving the fall of Saigon
A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close
04 Sep 2021,49 mins
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America
28 Aug 2021,49 mins
US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon
The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975
21 Aug 2021,49 mins
The Berlin Wall
In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe
14 Aug 2021,49 mins
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer
07 Aug 2021,49 mins
Japan history special
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments
31 Jul 2021,49 mins
Darfur's ethnic war
Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.
24 Jul 2021,49 mins
When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine
17 Jul 2021,49 mins
North Korea's 1990s famine
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea
10 Jul 2021,49 mins
Supernatural sightings
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.
03 Jul 2021,49 mins
LGBT special
The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast
26 Jun 2021,49 mins
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
One African-American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.
19 Jun 2021,49 mins
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections
12 Jun 2021,49 mins
The war on drugs
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
05 Jun 2021,53 mins
Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
29 May 2021,53 mins
When Egypt said Enough
The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands
22 May 2021,53 mins
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story
15 May 2021,53 mins
The IRA hunger strikes
Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction
08 May 2021,53 mins
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks
01 May 2021,53 mins
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle
24 Apr 2021,53 mins
The first woman in the US Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion
17 Apr 2021,53 mins