The History Hour

BBC

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.

Episodes

Mexican history: A love song and a gas explosion

Belgium’s royal affair and Montenegro gains independence

The first reality game show and a joik performance on Eurovision

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

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

Cleaning up Chernobyl and Canada’s war in the woods

Winning the Booker Prize and discovering a lost fairytale

Hitler’s teeth and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant

A papal visit and German reunification

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

Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

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

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

The Shetland Bus and Toxic shock syndrome

Italian history

Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal

Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy

The priest behind a new airport and Agatha Christie

The birth of the modern fitted kitchen and the creation of Cluedo