Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1497 Episodes
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The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Published: 9/07/2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Published: 8/07/2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Published: 5/07/2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Published: 4/07/2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Published: 3/07/2024 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Published: 2/07/2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Published: 1/07/2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Published: 29/06/2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Published: 27/06/2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Published: 26/06/2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Published: 25/06/2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Published: 24/06/2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Published: 21/06/2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Published: 20/06/2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Published: 19/06/2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Published: 18/06/2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Published: 17/06/2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Published: 14/06/2024 -
Kielland disaster
Published: 13/06/2024 -
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Published: 12/06/2024
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.
