Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Published: 07/05/2024 -
Friends: The making of a smash hit
Published: 06/05/2024 -
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Published: 03/05/2024 -
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
Published: 02/05/2024 -
How to win friends and influence people
Published: 01/05/2024 -
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Published: 30/04/2024 -
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Published: 29/04/2024 -
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Published: 26/04/2024 -
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Published: 25/04/2024 -
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Published: 24/04/2024 -
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
Published: 23/04/2024 -
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Published: 22/04/2024 -
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Published: 19/04/2024 -
Deadly Everest avalanche
Published: 18/04/2024 -
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
Published: 17/04/2024 -
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Published: 16/04/2024 -
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Published: 15/04/2024 -
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Published: 12/04/2024 -
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
Published: 11/04/2024 -
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
Published: 10/04/2024
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.
