Magic, illusion and tigers
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes.For nearly 40 years, Siegfried and Roy wowed audiences in Las Vegas with death-defying tricks involving white lions and tigers....
2 Nov 202451min
Dungeons & Dragons and dinosaur remains
First, on its 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, we hear from Luke Gygax, whose father created the fantasy role-play game. We also hear from Dr Melissa Rogerson, senior lecturer and board games r...
25 Okt 202451min
Flower revolutions
We hear about the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan in 2014. Brian Hioe, an activist who occupied Parliament in Taipei, recalls the events.We hear from Nino Zuriashvili, one of the protesters at the Rose R...
18 Okt 202451min
Technology and artificial intelligence
We start with the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC, built in 1946 by a team of female mathematicians including Kathleen Kay McNulty. We speak to Gini Mauchly Calcerano, dau...
11 Okt 202450min
Latin America's longest plane hijacking and Kristallnacht
We start our programme in 1973, when two men claiming to be Colombian guerrillas hijacked a plane making it fly across Latin American for 60 hours. Edilma Perez was a former fight attendant for SAM ai...
4 Okt 202451min
South Africa’s Immorality Act and India's Mars Orbiter Mission
We start with the story of a couple who were arrested under South Africa's Immorality Act, which banned sexual relationships between white people and non-white people. Dr Zureena Desai was arrested un...
27 Sep 202451min
New Zealand’s first dinosaur and India’s plague outbreak
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes.We start our programme looking at the discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur by Joan Wiffen.Our expert guest is Professor Eu...
21 Sep 202451min
Ethiopian history
Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes. We’re looking at key moments in Ethiopian history, as it’s 50 years since Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military ...
13 Sep 202450min
