The History Hour Podcast
A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Episodes to download
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Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
Sat 30 Mar 2024
The 75th anniversary of Nato, Britain's Mirpuri migration, and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
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Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
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Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution
Sat 9 Mar 2024
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
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Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan
Sat 2 Mar 2024
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
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Skiing and two-headed dogs
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
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Letters to Juliet and Saint Valentine’s traditions
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
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Internet cafes and Doomsday seeds
Sat 3 Feb 2024
The opening of the first commercial internet cafe and storing seeds in an Artic vault
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Lady Tarzan and Ibadan Zoo
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Why Nigeria went went wild for Ibadan Zoo and the Indian campaigner nicknamed Lady Tarzan
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The first lesbian couple to get married and World Laughter Day
Sat 13 Jan 2024
A collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the 91Èȱ¬ World Service
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Hindenburg disaster and wingsuits
Sat 6 Jan 2024
Herb Morrison's iconic broadcast about the airship crash and the invention of wingsuits
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Pad Thai, kiwis and the chef Ken Hom
Sat 30 Dec 2023
The disputed history of Thailand’s national dish and how Ken Hom promoted Chinese cookery
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Tsunamis and Caster Semenya
Sat 23 Dec 2023
The tsunami that devastated Samoa and when Caster Semenya faced questions over her gender
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Mandela's funeral and Tsar's reburial
Sat 16 Dec 2023
Nelson Mandela's daughter talks about her father's funeral and Russia buries its past
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Doom and Danish brains
Sat 9 Dec 2023
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
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Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids
Sat 2 Dec 2023
The Peruvian bird saved from the brink of extinction and the Cabbage Patch Kids craze
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Zambia celebrates independence and the invention of bubble tea
Sat 25 Nov 2023
An African nation is born in 1964 and a new invention changes the tea drinking world
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The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Iceland and EpiPen invention
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Icelandic volcano eruption stops European air travel in 2010 and inventing the EpiPen
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Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
Sat 11 Nov 2023
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
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Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Sat 4 Nov 2023
Aleida Guevara on being a doctor in Angola's civil war and Jane Seymour on Fashion Aid
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Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
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Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Sat 21 Oct 2023
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week
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The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
Sat 14 Oct 2023
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated
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Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Sat 7 Oct 2023
Why oil prices spiralled in 1973, plus Amoco Cadiz, one of the world’s largest oil spills
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The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
Sat 30 Sep 2023
The sinking of a migrant boat 10 years ago, and the world's first cat cafe in Taiwan.
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Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Sat 23 Sep 2023
Adolf Hitler’s order to sterilise people, and the ‘world’s most annoying instrument’
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Israeli and Palestinian history
Sat 16 Sep 2023
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
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The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
Sat 9 Sep 2023
The 1973 military coup in Chile and Zanzibar’s ‘golden grandmother of music’
