Witness History

History as told by the people who were there.

Episodes

Total: 2015

In February 1990 half of the original manuscript of one of America's best loved books, The Adventure

In February 2002 the former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial for war crimes comm

The Silver Ring Thing

2017/2/17

In 1995, a Christian campaign started in America to encourage teenagers to promise not to have sex b

In 2006, a Ugandan newspaper began printing the names of professionals believed to be gay. It foresh

Italy votes for divorce

2017/2/15

In May 1974, Italians defied the Catholic Church and overwhelmingly backed divorce in a referendum.

The Birth of Speed Dating

2017/2/14

In 1998, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo and his students came up with a new way for single people to meet each ot

When Giovanni Vigliotto went on trial for fraud and bigamy in the USA, he claimed he'd married more

Mayors across America have vowed to resist efforts by President Trump to crack down on so-called San

In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked off the Scottish island

The story of a 1980s Kenyan pop song which became an unlikely global hit. The song, Jambo Bwana was

On February the 20th 1991, the captive bull orca, Tilikum, drowned his trainer, Keltie Byrne at Seal

In 1951 the young British scientist began one of the key scientific investigations of the century. R

In early 1995 Peru and Ecuador went to war over a strip of land that both claimed to be theirs. The

The End of Apartheid

2017/2/2

On February 2nd 1990, the South African president FW de Klerk surprised the world by announcing in p

In 1993, the United States launched a disastrous raid against the forces of the Somali warlord Gener