Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1497 Episodes
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Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
Published: 6/08/2024 -
The Situation Room photograph
Published: 5/08/2024 -
Ice Bucket Challenge
Published: 2/08/2024 -
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
Published: 1/08/2024 -
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
Published: 31/07/2024 -
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Published: 30/07/2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Published: 29/07/2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Published: 26/07/2024 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Published: 25/07/2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Published: 24/07/2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Published: 23/07/2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Published: 22/07/2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Published: 19/07/2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Published: 18/07/2024 -
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Published: 17/07/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Published: 16/07/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Published: 15/07/2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Published: 12/07/2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Published: 11/07/2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Published: 10/07/2024
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.
