Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1494 Episodes
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Australian republic referendum
Published: 20/12/2024 -
Poland's bleak Christmas
Published: 19/12/2024 -
Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Published: 18/12/2024 -
Surviving Andes plane crash
Published: 17/12/2024 -
Peshawar school massacre
Published: 16/12/2024 -
The birth of reggaeton
Published: 13/12/2024 -
The handover of the Panama Canal
Published: 12/12/2024 -
The Purple Heart Warriors
Published: 11/12/2024 -
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
Published: 9/12/2024 -
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Published: 6/12/2024 -
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
Published: 5/12/2024 -
The ‘Three Marias’
Published: 4/12/2024 -
The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
Published: 3/12/2024 -
Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
Published: 2/12/2024 -
The end of the US HIV travel ban
Published: 29/11/2024 -
The deepest man-made hole in the world
Published: 28/11/2024 -
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Published: 27/11/2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Published: 26/11/2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Published: 25/11/2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Published: 22/11/2024
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.
