Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Paraguay adopts its second language
Published: 13/03/2024 -
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
Published: 12/03/2024 -
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Published: 11/03/2024 -
MH370: The plane that vanished
Published: 08/03/2024 -
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
Published: 07/03/2024 -
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
Published: 06/03/2024 -
French child evacuees of World War Two
Published: 05/03/2024 -
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
Published: 04/03/2024 -
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
Published: 01/03/2024 -
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
Published: 29/02/2024 -
The lost Czech scrolls
Published: 28/02/2024 -
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Published: 27/02/2024 -
Russia annexes Crimea
Published: 26/02/2024 -
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Published: 23/02/2024 -
Columbus Lighthouse
Published: 22/02/2024 -
Trans murder in Honduras
Published: 21/02/2024 -
Icelandic women's strike
Published: 20/02/2024 -
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Published: 19/02/2024 -
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
Published: 16/02/2024 -
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
Published: 15/02/2024
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.
