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Witness History Episodes

  1. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  2. Weekend listening: The History Bureau

    If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that turns out to be flawed?

  3. Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

    The epic space story of a sci-fi dream that changed spaceflight forever

  4. The young Benazir

    We take you back to the 1970s and the youth of Benazir Bhutto.

  5. The Roma Victims of the Holocaust

    In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported its Roma citizens to Transdniestria

  6. The Destruction of the Mosque at Ayodhya

    In December 1993, Hindu activists demolished a Muslim holy site.

  7. The British love of tea (from Here for The History)

    The Portuguese princess, corporate espionage and waging war for tea.

  8. Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

    Humans are returning to the Moon - hear about it on the BBC’s space podcast, 13 Minutes

  9. Obama in Indonesia

    Obama's childhood years in Indonesia

  10. Nasa's pioneering black women

    The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme

  11. James Salter, Writer and Pilot

    The acclaimed American writer died in June 2015, aged 90.

  12. Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev

    Nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers stop a global catastrophe?

  13. Introducing The Bomb

    Emily’s grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could it have been stopped?

  14. How Liberia wrote off its debts

    Hoe Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.

  15. Eng26 Witness History (Wednesday 2

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  16. Eng26 Witness History (Wednesday 1

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  17. Eng26 Witness History (Tuesday) 3

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  18. Eng26 Witness History (Tuesday) 2

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  19. Eng26 Witness History (Thursday) 2

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  20. Eng26 Witness History (Thursday) 1

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  21. Eng26 Witness History (Friday) 2

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  22. Chief Albert Luthuli

    The ANC leader was the first black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize - awarded in 1961

  23. Bonus: The Black 14

    The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism

  24. Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley

    A special preview of the brand new podcast Death in Ice Valley

  25. Black September

    In 1970 the Jordanian military fought against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

  26. 31/01/2011 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  27. 30/11/2010

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

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    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  29. 30/11/2010

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  30. 29/11/2010 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

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