Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Published: 24/09/2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Published: 23/09/2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Published: 20/09/2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Published: 19/09/2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Published: 18/09/2024 -
Camouflaging Leningrad
Published: 17/09/2024 -
The invention of the CT scanner
Published: 16/09/2024 -
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Published: 13/09/2024 -
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Published: 12/09/2024 -
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Published: 11/09/2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Published: 10/09/2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Published: 09/09/2024 -
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
Published: 06/09/2024 -
Apollo 13
Published: 05/09/2024 -
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Published: 04/09/2024 -
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
Published: 03/09/2024 -
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Published: 02/09/2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Published: 30/08/2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Published: 29/08/2024 -
Waris Dirie
Published: 28/08/2024
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.
