Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1496 Episodes
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I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Published: 2/09/2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Published: 30/08/2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Published: 29/08/2024 -
Waris Dirie
Published: 28/08/2024 -
The writer of Mary Poppins
Published: 27/08/2024 -
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Published: 26/08/2024 -
Spain's La Tomatina
Published: 23/08/2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Published: 22/08/2024 -
India’s first female bartender
Published: 22/08/2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Published: 20/08/2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Published: 19/08/2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Published: 16/08/2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Published: 15/08/2024 -
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Published: 14/08/2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Published: 13/08/2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Published: 12/08/2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Published: 9/08/2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Published: 8/08/2024 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Published: 7/08/2024 -
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
Published: 6/08/2024
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
