Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Published: 04/07/2025 -
Back to the Future
Published: 03/07/2025 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Published: 02/07/2025 -
Cecil the lion
Published: 01/07/2025 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Published: 30/06/2025 -
Italian happiness trains
Published: 27/06/2025 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Published: 26/06/2025 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Published: 25/06/2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Published: 24/06/2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Published: 23/06/2025 -
Making Jaws
Published: 20/06/2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Published: 19/06/2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Published: 18/06/2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Published: 17/06/2025 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Published: 16/06/2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Published: 13/06/2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Published: 12/06/2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Published: 11/06/2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Published: 10/06/2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Published: 09/06/2025
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.
