Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Published: 22/10/2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Published: 21/10/2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Published: 18/10/2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Published: 17/10/2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Published: 16/10/2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Published: 15/10/2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Published: 14/10/2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Published: 11/10/2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Published: 10/10/2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Published: 09/10/2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Published: 08/10/2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Published: 07/10/2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Published: 04/10/2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Published: 03/10/2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Published: 02/10/2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Published: 01/10/2024 -
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
Published: 30/09/2024 -
The Estonia ferry disaster
Published: 27/09/2024 -
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Published: 26/09/2024 -
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Published: 25/09/2024
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.
