Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1492 Episodes
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Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Published: 01/08/2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Published: 31/07/2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Published: 30/07/2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Published: 29/07/2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Published: 28/07/2025 -
A Chorus Line
Published: 25/07/2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Published: 24/07/2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Published: 23/07/2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Published: 22/07/2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Published: 21/07/2025 -
Italo disco
Published: 18/07/2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Published: 17/07/2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Published: 16/07/2025 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Published: 15/07/2025 -
The start of Voice of America
Published: 14/07/2025 -
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Published: 11/07/2025 -
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Published: 10/07/2025 -
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
Published: 09/07/2025 -
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Published: 08/07/2025 -
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Published: 07/07/2025
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.
