Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1503 Episodes
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The war in Transnistria
Published: 13/05/2022 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Published: 11/05/2022 -
China opens up to capitalism
Published: 10/05/2022 -
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Published: 9/05/2022 -
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Published: 6/05/2022 -
The chemistry of cannabis
Published: 5/05/2022 -
Roe v Wade
Published: 4/05/2022 -
Surviving the Falkands War
Published: 3/05/2022 -
The sinking of the Belgrano
Published: 2/05/2022 -
Algeria's rebel footballers
Published: 29/04/2022 -
The Algerians who fought for France
Published: 28/04/2022 -
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
Published: 27/04/2022 -
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Published: 26/04/2022 -
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Published: 25/04/2022 -
The battle for Kinder Scout
Published: 22/04/2022 -
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Published: 21/04/2022 -
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Published: 20/04/2022 -
Women's rights in Basra
Published: 19/04/2022 -
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
Published: 18/04/2022 -
The World Wide Web
Published: 15/04/2022
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.
