The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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I was abused by a President
Sat 9 Mar 2019
How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins
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Venezuela's oil bonanza
Sat 2 Mar 2019
When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis
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The curse of Agent Orange
Sat 23 Feb 2019
Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.
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Iceland jails its bankers
Sat 16 Feb 2019
Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.
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The last days of Hitler
Sat 9 Feb 2019
Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising
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The Iranian Revolution
Sat 2 Feb 2019
Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979
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Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
Sat 26 Jan 2019
Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.
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Strikers in Saris
Sat 19 Jan 2019
How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.
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When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault
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Vikings in North America
Sat 5 Jan 2019
Exciting discovery in Canada plus a rebel attack in Central America and Brazilian booty.
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UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Sat 29 Dec 2018
The most striking and well documented UFO "sightings" there have ever been.
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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'
Sat 22 Dec 2018
A passenger helps overcome Richard Reid, plus US apology for Japanese American internment
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Apollo 8
Sat 15 Dec 2018
The astronauts who changed our view of the Earth, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama.
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Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
Sat 8 Dec 2018
Child survivor of a Guatemalan army massacre, Bokassa's coronation, Armenia's earthquake
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The Man Who Inspired Britain's First Aids Charity
Sat 1 Dec 2018
The first British man to die of AIDS, 1950s whale hunting, and the real Indiana Jones
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The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers
Sat 24 Nov 2018
The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death
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Japanese Murders in Brazil
Sat 17 Nov 2018
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
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The End of World War One
Sat 10 Nov 2018
Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.
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When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Sat 27 Oct 2018
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.
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When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
Sat 20 Oct 2018
A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis
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The Nazi Black Book
Sat 13 Oct 2018
The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden
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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
Sat 6 Oct 2018
The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.
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The Arnhem Parachute Drop
Sat 22 Sep 2018
Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies
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How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
Sat 15 Sep 2018
A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.
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Living under Gaddafi
Sat 8 Sep 2018
How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner
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Surviving the "Death Railway"
Sat 1 Sep 2018
A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster
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Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Sat 25 Aug 2018
Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.
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Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
Sat 18 Aug 2018
WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.
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WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
Sat 4 Aug 2018
First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, and dancing bears
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The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
Sat 28 Jul 2018
How the true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was uncovered after independence.
