Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Published: 09/04/2024 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Published: 08/04/2024 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Published: 06/04/2024 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Published: 05/04/2024 -
The Bluetooth story
Published: 04/04/2024 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Published: 03/04/2024 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Published: 02/04/2024 -
Fifty years of Abba
Published: 31/03/2024 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Published: 29/03/2024 -
The founding of Nato
Published: 28/03/2024 -
Britain's first beach for nudists
Published: 27/03/2024 -
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Published: 26/03/2024 -
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Published: 25/03/2024 -
Wham! in China
Published: 22/03/2024 -
Discovering the Terracotta Army
Published: 21/03/2024 -
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Published: 20/03/2024 -
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Published: 19/03/2024 -
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
Published: 18/03/2024 -
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Published: 15/03/2024 -
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Published: 14/03/2024
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.
