Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
Published: 17/11/2023 -
The Bolivian Water War
Published: 16/11/2023 -
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Published: 15/11/2023 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
Published: 14/11/2023 -
The invention of the EpiPen
Published: 13/11/2023 -
The hippo and the tortoise
Published: 10/11/2023 -
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
Published: 09/11/2023 -
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Published: 08/11/2023 -
Debbie McGee in Iran
Published: 07/11/2023 -
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Published: 06/11/2023 -
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Published: 03/11/2023 -
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Published: 02/11/2023 -
Inventing the black box
Published: 01/11/2023 -
The discovery of the HIV virus
Published: 31/10/2023 -
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Published: 30/10/2023 -
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
Published: 27/10/2023 -
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
Published: 26/10/2023 -
The 1993 MAD hijack
Published: 25/10/2023 -
The 1980 Turkey coup
Published: 24/10/2023 -
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Published: 23/10/2023
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.
