Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1498 Episodes
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The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Published: 12/06/2024 -
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Published: 11/06/2024 -
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
Published: 10/06/2024 -
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Published: 7/06/2024 -
Saving lives on D-Day
Published: 6/06/2024 -
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Published: 5/06/2024 -
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
Published: 4/06/2024 -
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Published: 3/06/2024 -
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Published: 31/05/2024 -
The Flint water crisis
Published: 30/05/2024 -
The first Aboriginal MP
Published: 29/05/2024 -
The first ever quintuplets
Published: 28/05/2024 -
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
Published: 27/05/2024 -
How Air Jordans were created
Published: 24/05/2024 -
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Published: 23/05/2024 -
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
Published: 22/05/2024 -
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Published: 21/05/2024 -
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
Published: 20/05/2024 -
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Published: 17/05/2024 -
Baghdad heavy metal
Published: 16/05/2024
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.
