Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1494 Episodes
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Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Published: 21/01/2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Published: 20/01/2025 -
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Published: 17/01/2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Published: 16/01/2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Published: 15/01/2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Published: 14/01/2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Published: 13/01/2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Published: 10/01/2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Published: 9/01/2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Published: 8/01/2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Published: 7/01/2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Published: 2/01/2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Published: 1/01/2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Published: 31/12/2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Published: 30/12/2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Published: 27/12/2024 -
'Kimchi war'
Published: 26/12/2024 -
Chef to five presidents
Published: 25/12/2024 -
When instant noodles came to India
Published: 24/12/2024 -
'I created MasterChef'
Published: 23/12/2024
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.
