The History Hour

By BBC World Service

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A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.


Episode Date
Ebola outbreak and the Friendship Train returns
Apr 20, 2024
The history of art heists
Apr 12, 2024
Swedish History
Apr 05, 2024
Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Mar 30, 2024
Chinese history
Mar 23, 2024
Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion
Mar 16, 2024
Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution
Mar 09, 2024
Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan
Mar 02, 2024
Skiing and two-headed dogs
Feb 24, 2024
Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions
Feb 17, 2024
Inspirational black women
Feb 10, 2024
Internet cafes and Doomsday seeds
Feb 03, 2024
Traitors and treachery
Jan 27, 2024
Lady Tarzan and Ibadan Zoo
Jan 20, 2024
The first lesbian couple to get married and World Laughter Day
Jan 13, 2024
Hindenburg disaster and wingsuits
Jan 06, 2024
Pad Thai, kiwis and the chef Ken Hom
Dec 30, 2023
Tsunamis and Caster Semenya
Dec 23, 2023
Mandela's funeral and Tsar's reburial
Dec 16, 2023
Doom and Danish brains
Dec 09, 2023
Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids
Dec 02, 2023
Zambia celebrates independence and the invention of bubble tea
Nov 25, 2023
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Nov 18, 2023
Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
Nov 11, 2023
Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Nov 04, 2023
Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Oct 27, 2023
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Oct 20, 2023
The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
Oct 13, 2023
Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Oct 06, 2023
The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Sep 29, 2023
Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Sep 22, 2023
Israeli and Palestinian history
Sep 15, 2023
The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
Sep 09, 2023
Historic Korean summit and goat island
Sep 01, 2023
Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the first Rose of Tralee
Aug 25, 2023
Judy Garland's legacy and the Benin Bronzes
Aug 18, 2023
Presidential diamonds and Tupperware parties
Aug 11, 2023
Dinosaur discoveries and a Berlin Wall treehouse
Aug 05, 2023
West African food and computer viruses
Jul 28, 2023
Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
Jul 21, 2023
Five great inventions that changed the world
Jul 14, 2023
Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
Jul 07, 2023
South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Jun 30, 2023
Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
Jun 24, 2023
Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Jun 16, 2023
Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Jun 09, 2023
Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Jun 02, 2023
Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
May 27, 2023
Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two
May 19, 2023
World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'
May 12, 2023
The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor
May 05, 2023
Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala
Apr 28, 2023
The history of dogs
Apr 21, 2023
Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing
Apr 15, 2023
Escaping Eritrea and inventing Zumba
Apr 08, 2023
The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley
Apr 01, 2023
Film and cinema around the world
Mar 25, 2023
The Invasion of Iraq
Mar 18, 2023
International Women's Day
Mar 11, 2023
Pink triangles and political assassinations
Mar 04, 2023
Riots in Mauritius and the Queen 'jumping out of a helicopter'
Feb 28, 2023
'Hot Autumn' and Tutankhamun
Feb 18, 2023
Popes
Feb 11, 2023
Pirate radio and the Velvet Divorce
Feb 04, 2023
The death penalty and broadcasting bans
Jan 28, 2023
Horsemeat scandal and the Miracle on the Hudson
Jan 21, 2023
Plastics in oceans and sea cucumbers
Jan 14, 2023
Pussy Riot and other Russian rebels
Jan 07, 2023
Food
Dec 31, 2022
90 years of the BBC World Service
Dec 24, 2022
District Six and daredevils
Dec 17, 2022
Referendums and Teletubbies
Dec 10, 2022
Contested islands and Miss World protests
Dec 03, 2022
Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions
Nov 26, 2022
Arabian Peninsula
Nov 19, 2022
Racist raids, protests and a political assassination
Nov 12, 2022
The best Championship Manager player ever
Nov 05, 2022
Women taking a stand
Oct 29, 2022
Cuban boxing and the brink of nuclear war
Oct 22, 2022
Global strikes and industrial action
Oct 15, 2022
Caribbean carnivals and a racially inclusive nightclub
Oct 08, 2022
Dassler brothers' rift
Oct 01, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II and broadcasting
Sep 24, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II
Sep 18, 2022
Brazil
Sep 11, 2022
Gorbachev's legacy
Sep 03, 2022
Inflation and the cost of living
Aug 27, 2022
Seventy-five years since India's Partition
Aug 20, 2022
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Aug 13, 2022
Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda
Aug 06, 2022
The Revolution on Granite
Jul 30, 2022
Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world
Jul 23, 2022
Stories from the abortion fight frontline
Jul 16, 2022
America’s first gay election candidate
Jul 09, 2022
Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule
Jul 02, 2022
Egypt's first democratic Presidential election
Jun 25, 2022
Cambodian genocide trials
Jun 18, 2022
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Jun 11, 2022
The Syrian civil war
Jun 04, 2022
Artists who made history
May 28, 2022
The Marcos regime in the Philippines
May 21, 2022
The war in Transnistria
May 14, 2022
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
May 07, 2022
Algeria's War of Independence
Apr 30, 2022
The Falkands War
Apr 09, 2022
Protesting against Putin
Apr 02, 2022
Ukrainian history special
Mar 26, 2022
Women who made history
Mar 12, 2022
Russia under Putin
Mar 05, 2022
LGBT history special
Feb 19, 2022
The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Feb 12, 2022
Kazakhstan's new capital
Feb 05, 2022
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
Jan 29, 2022
The rise of Boko Haram
Jan 22, 2022
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
Jan 15, 2022
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Jan 08, 2022
A history of games
Jan 01, 2022
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Dec 25, 2021
The birth of Bangladesh
Dec 18, 2021
Four decades of HIV/Aids
Dec 04, 2021
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Nov 27, 2021
Sudan's October Revolution
Nov 20, 2021
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Nov 13, 2021
When Eritrea silenced its critics
Nov 06, 2021
The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Oct 30, 2021
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Oct 23, 2021
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Oct 16, 2021
Black history: Britain and race
Oct 09, 2021
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Oct 02, 2021
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Sep 25, 2021
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Sep 18, 2021
9/11 and the war on terror
Sep 11, 2021
Surviving the fall of Saigon
Sep 04, 2021
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Aug 28, 2021
US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon
Aug 21, 2021
The Berlin Wall
Aug 14, 2021
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Aug 07, 2021
Darfur's ethnic war
Jul 24, 2021
When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Jul 17, 2021
North Korea's 1990s famine
Jul 10, 2021
Supernatural sightings
Jul 03, 2021
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
Jun 19, 2021
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Jun 12, 2021
The war on drugs
Jun 05, 2021
Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
May 29, 2021
When Egypt said Enough
May 22, 2021
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
May 15, 2021
The IRA hunger strikes
May 08, 2021
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
May 01, 2021
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Apr 24, 2021
The first woman in the US Supreme Court
Apr 17, 2021
The women who reclaimed the night
Apr 10, 2021
Black Jesus
Apr 03, 2021
The History Hour
Mar 27, 2021
The History Hour
Mar 20, 2021
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Mar 13, 2021
The Iron Curtain
Mar 06, 2021
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Feb 27, 2021
Black History: The Black Panthers
Feb 20, 2021
US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
Feb 13, 2021
The Burma protests of 1988
Feb 06, 2021
The Arab Spring of 2011
Jan 30, 2021
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Jan 23, 2021
Attack at the US Capitol
Jan 16, 2021
Buddhist on Death Row
Jan 09, 2021
75 years of Unesco
Jan 02, 2021
Film special
Dec 26, 2020
The birth of Bangladesh
Dec 19, 2020
The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Dec 12, 2020
The fall of Addis Ababa
Dec 05, 2020
Disability History special
Nov 28, 2020
The world's first woman premier
Nov 21, 2020
The Guerrilla Girls
Nov 14, 2020
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Nov 07, 2020
US presidential history special
Oct 31, 2020
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Oct 24, 2020
CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
Oct 17, 2020
British black history special
Oct 10, 2020
The Mafia and Italian politics
Oct 03, 2020
Blackwater killed my son
Sep 26, 2020
Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Sep 19, 2020
Prohibition in India
Sep 12, 2020
Inventing James Bond
Sep 05, 2020
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Aug 28, 2020
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Aug 22, 2020
Beirut's hotel war
Aug 15, 2020
The Second World War in Japan
Aug 08, 2020
Adrift for 76 Days
Aug 01, 2020
The Million Man March
Jul 25, 2020
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Jul 18, 2020
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Jul 04, 2020
Dealing with economic crisis
Jun 27, 2020
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Jun 20, 2020
Black American History Special
Jun 13, 2020
The Zanzibar revolution
Jun 06, 2020
The Gwangju massacre
May 30, 2020
Britain's World War Two crime wave
May 23, 2020
Fighting for the pill in Japan
May 16, 2020
VE Day Special
May 09, 2020
The 1957 flu pandemic
May 02, 2020
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Apr 25, 2020
Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
Apr 18, 2020
How technology revolutionised our lives
Apr 11, 2020
Women in the law
Apr 04, 2020
The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss
Mar 28, 2020
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Mar 21, 2020
The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic
Mar 14, 2020
The history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Mar 07, 2020
Freeing American prisoners from Iran
Feb 29, 2020
Saving Antarctica
Feb 22, 2020
The publication of Harry Potter
Feb 15, 2020
London's first black policeman
Feb 08, 2020
The early days of the European Union
Feb 01, 2020
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Jan 25, 2020
Storming the Stasi HQ
Jan 18, 2020
The Computers for Schools revolution
Jan 11, 2020
The book that warned of an end to civilisation
Jan 04, 2020
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Dec 28, 2019
The Romanian revolution
Dec 21, 2019
The Cuban writer who defied Castro
Dec 07, 2019
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
Nov 30, 2019
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Nov 23, 2019
Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean
Nov 16, 2019
Britain's secret propaganda war
Nov 09, 2019
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Nov 02, 2019
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Oct 26, 2019
An environmental history special
Oct 19, 2019
Black British history
Oct 12, 2019
The birth of the People's Republic of China
Oct 05, 2019
Fighting the Islamic State group online
Sep 28, 2019
The Cambridge spy network
Sep 21, 2019
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
Sep 14, 2019
The outbreak of World War Two
Sep 07, 2019
The Kindertransport children
Aug 31, 2019
The return of the wolf
Aug 24, 2019
The division of Kashmir
Aug 17, 2019
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
Aug 10, 2019
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
Aug 03, 2019
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Jul 27, 2019
Exploring space
Jul 20, 2019
Kenya's ivory inferno
Jul 13, 2019
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Jul 06, 2019
The Stonewall riot
Jun 29, 2019
The assassination of Medgar Evers
Jun 22, 2019
The first anti-psychotic drug
Jun 14, 2019
D-Day
Jun 08, 2019
Tiananmen Square
Jun 01, 2019
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
May 25, 2019
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
May 18, 2019
The war on drugs
May 13, 2019
The Malayan Emergency
May 04, 2019
The al Yamamah arms deals
Apr 27, 2019
The Columbine school shooting
Apr 18, 2019
The rise of Hindu nationalism
Apr 13, 2019
Abolishing the army
Apr 06, 2019
Drama in the British parliament
Mar 30, 2019
Autism and the MMR vaccine
Mar 23, 2019
China's breakthrough malaria cure
Mar 16, 2019
I was abused by a President
Mar 09, 2019
Venezuela's oil bonanza
Mar 02, 2019
The curse of Agent Orange
Feb 23, 2019
Iceland jails its bankers
Feb 16, 2019
The last days of Hitler
Feb 09, 2019
The Iranian Revolution
Feb 02, 2019
Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Jan 26, 2019
Strikers in Saris
Jan 19, 2019
When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Jan 14, 2019
Vikings in North America
Jan 05, 2019
UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Dec 29, 2018
Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'
Dec 22, 2018
Apollo 8
Dec 15, 2018
Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
Dec 08, 2018
The Man Who Inspired Britain's First Aids Charity
Dec 01, 2018
The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers
Nov 24, 2018
Japanese Murders in Brazil
Nov 17, 2018
The End of World War One
Nov 10, 2018
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Oct 26, 2018
The Nazi Black Book
Oct 26, 2018
When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
Oct 20, 2018
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
Oct 06, 2018
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
Sep 22, 2018
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
Sep 15, 2018
Living under Gaddafi
Sep 08, 2018
Surviving the "Death Railway"
Sep 01, 2018
Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Aug 25, 2018
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
Aug 18, 2018
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
Aug 04, 2018
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
Jul 27, 2018
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
Jul 21, 2018
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
Jul 14, 2018
When The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner
Jul 07, 2018
The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby
Jun 30, 2018
Korea Divided: A Bitter History
Jun 16, 2018
The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt
Jun 09, 2018
Free Health Care for All
Jun 03, 2018
The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia
May 26, 2018
May 1968 Paris Riots
May 19, 2018
The Last King of Bulgaria
May 12, 2018
When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power
May 05, 2018
The Oslo Peace Talks
Apr 28, 2018
Earth Day
Apr 21, 2018
The Zimbabwe Massacres
Apr 14, 2018
The Good Friday Agreement
Mar 31, 2018
The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America
Mar 17, 2018
Deaf Rights Protest
Mar 10, 2018
China's Barefoot Doctors
Mar 03, 2018
The Boy in the Bubble
Feb 24, 2018
Women's Rights In Iran
Feb 17, 2018
The Munich Air Disaster
Feb 10, 2018
The Tet Offensive
Feb 03, 2018
The Capture of the USS Pueblo
Jan 27, 2018
Truth And Reconciliation in South Africa
Jan 20, 2018
When France Said 'Non' to Britain Joining Europe
Jan 13, 2018
Boris Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation
Jan 06, 2018
Kwanzaa - The African-American Holiday
Dec 30, 2017
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dec 23, 2017
The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery
Dec 16, 2017
British Withdrawal from South Yemen
Dec 09, 2017
The Poisoning of Litvinenko
Dec 02, 2017
The Siege of Mecca
Nov 25, 2017
The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon
Nov 18, 2017
The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control
Nov 11, 2017
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
Nov 04, 2017
The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
Oct 29, 2017
The 43 Group: Battling British Fascists
Oct 21, 2017
The Death of Che Guevara
Oct 14, 2017
The Hate Crime That Changed American Law
Oct 07, 2017
Walking the Great Wall of China
Sep 29, 2017
When Animals Make History
Sep 24, 2017
The Collapse of Northern Rock
Sep 16, 2017
The Fairy Photos
Sep 09, 2017
The Death of Princess Diana
Sep 02, 2017
Medicine in World War One
Aug 26, 2017
Nike and the Sweatshop Problem
Aug 19, 2017
Reagan's Bombing Joke
Aug 11, 2017
When Homosexuality Was a Crime
Jul 29, 2017
Psychological Warfare
Jul 22, 2017
The Oka Crisis
Jul 15, 2017
The Roswell Incident
Jul 08, 2017
The History of Modern Tourism
Jul 02, 2017
Italy's Secret "State-within-a-State"
Jun 24, 2017
The Woman Who Stopped Equal Rights in America
Jun 17, 2017
The Six Day War 1967
Jun 10, 2017
Operation Lifeline: Canada's Refugee Revolution
Jun 03, 2017
Brown v The Board of Education
May 20, 2017
The Trial of Maurice Papon
May 13, 2017
The Invention of Liposuction
May 06, 2017
Searching For Argentina's Disappeared
Apr 29, 2017
Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
Apr 22, 2017
The Takeover of Russia's NTV
Apr 15, 2017
How Princess Diana changed the perception of AIDS
Apr 10, 2017
The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food
Apr 01, 2017
The First Russian Revolution of 1917
Mar 18, 2017
Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote
Mar 10, 2017
Mother Teresa - The Nun Who Became A Saint
Mar 04, 2017
The German American Bund
Feb 25, 2017
Love and Marriage
Feb 18, 2017
Sanctuary Cities in the USA
Feb 11, 2017
The End of Apartheid
Feb 04, 2017
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Jan 28, 2017
Roots - The TV Series
Jan 21, 2017
Princess Diana's Minefield Walk
Jan 14, 2017
American Communists
Jan 07, 2017
The Break-Up of the Soviet Union
Dec 31, 2016
Death of an Anarchist
Dec 24, 2016
Yoyes, ETA's female icon
Dec 16, 2016
100 Women History Hour
Dec 10, 2016
Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt
Dec 03, 2016
The 1948 French Miners' Strike
Nov 25, 2016
The Dili Massacre
Nov 19, 2016
The Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial
Nov 13, 2016
Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
Nov 05, 2016
Shell Shock
Oct 29, 2016
The Mayak Nuclear Disaster
Sep 30, 2016
The University of Texas Shooting
Aug 08, 2016
First CIA coup in Latin America
Jul 30, 2016
Tanzania's Ujamaa
Jun 04, 2016
The Thalidomide Trial
May 28, 2016
Remembering Chernobyl
Apr 30, 2016
The Original Revolutionary Feminist
Mar 12, 2016
The Battle of Verdun
Feb 20, 2016
Prozac
Feb 06, 2016
The Challenger Disaster
Jan 30, 2016
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Dec 31, 2015
The Battle of Tora Bora
Dec 12, 2015
The Amman Bombings
Nov 14, 2015
The Death of Rock Hudson
Oct 03, 2015
Korea Divided
Aug 15, 2015