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The History Hour

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A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

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A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

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Solar-powered flight and the Crazy Horse Memorial

Jul 25, 2026·1:00:43

1:00:43

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes. This week, we hear about the first solar-powered flight around the world, and discuss other moments in the history of solar power with Prof Laura...

The Spanish Civil War and the Birkin bag

Jul 18, 2026·1:00:08

1:00:08

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This week, we mark 90 years since the start of the Spanish Civil War. Our guest is historian Professor Sir Paul...

Buildings of power and the Dada art movement

Jul 11, 2026·1:01:27

1:01:27

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Mateja Kurir, associate professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and the editor of the...

The return of Chief Long Wolf and The Statue of Liberty's facelift

Jul 3, 2026·1:01:31

1:01:31

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Jan English from the American Museum and Gardens in Bath in the UK. We start with the moment the...

The Slip Slop Slap campaign and the Brexit referendum

Jun 27, 2026·1:00:32

1:00:32

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. We start with...

An uprising in South Africa and an exodus in the Caucasus

Jun 19, 2026·1:00:58

1:00:58

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Rachel E. Johnson, Professor of Modern African History at Durham University in the UK. We...

Opening the archives: A cellist, a playwright and a king

Jun 13, 2026·1:00:30

1:00:30

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. And today, we’re celebrating international archives week, set up to highlight the importance of protecting the...

The creation of Inspector Montalbano and Australia's first Big Thing

Jun 6, 2026·1:00:47

1:00:47

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Giuliana Pieri, an expert in Italian noir from Royal Holloway, University of London. We start...

Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion

May 30, 2026·1:00:14

1:00:14

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Michelle Meinhart, a reader in musicology and cultural history at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in...

Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence

May 23, 2026·1:00:21

1:00:21

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. First, the story of the Belgian teenager who exposed a scandal within the country’s Royal Family in 1999. Our guest...

The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision

May 16, 2026·1:00:41

1:00:41

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We start with the launch of Expedition Robinson in Sweden in 1997 and discuss how reality TV began around the world...

Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest and a WW2 sabotage mission in Norway

May 9, 2026·1:00:50

1:00:50

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We start with the broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough. To mark his 100th birthday, we go back to the...

The world’s first perfume archive and Dutch car-free Sundays in the global oil crisis

May 1, 2026·1:00:49

1:00:49

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This week, we hear from a perfumer who in 1990 helped create the world’s first perfume archive in Versailles France...

Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods

Apr 25, 2026·1:00:48

1:00:48

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. On the 40th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, we hear from one man involved in the clean-up...

Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale

Apr 18, 2026·1:00:48

1:00:48

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. This week, the moment when Irish writer Roddy Doyle discovered he'd won one of the most prestigious honours in...

Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Apr 11, 2026·1:00:15

1:00:15

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Sahar Saleem, an Egyptian paleoradiologist specialising in using medical imaging technology to study...

The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant

Apr 4, 2026·1:00:32

1:00:32

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Sarah Ward, a maritime archaeologist from the Australian National University. We start with the...

A papal visit and German reunification

Mar 28, 2026·1:00:30

1:00:30

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Paulina Guzik, International editor with the Catholic wire service, OSV News. We start in 1986 when...

The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal

Mar 21, 2026·1:00:29

1:00:29

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We hear from a Cypriot lawyer, imprisoned by the British for almost two years during the "Cyprus Emergency” of...

Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Mar 14, 2026·1:00:46

1:00:46

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is media, culture and creative industries lecturer Sarah Jilani. We start in 1954 with the Japanese film...

Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK

Mar 7, 2026·1:01:40

1:01:40

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. We hear how a speech by Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, in 1972, caused a break down in relations with the USA...

Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III

Feb 28, 2026·59:57

59:57

We begin with the trial of the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. It was claimed that he traded in arms and ammunition in return for so-called blood diamonds. Our guest, gemmologist James Evans discusses the...

The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome

Feb 21, 2026·1:00:12

1:00:12

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Professor Guri Hjeltnes, an author and World War Two historian. We start with Nazi Germany’s occupation...

Italian history

Feb 14, 2026·1:00:38

1:00:38

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Scottish writer, editor and music programmer Arusa Qureshi. We start in 1989 when the British rock band...

Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal

Feb 7, 2026·1:01:26

1:01:26

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes from the BBC World Service. What does a tickle look like? That was the question eight-year-old Adam Hargreaves asked in...