Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1493 Episodes
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Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Published: 09/03/2023 -
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Published: 06/03/2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Published: 03/03/2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Published: 02/03/2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Published: 01/03/2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Published: 28/02/2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Published: 27/02/2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Published: 24/02/2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Published: 23/02/2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Published: 22/02/2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Published: 21/02/2023 -
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
Published: 20/02/2023 -
First winter ascent of Everest
Published: 17/02/2023 -
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
Published: 16/02/2023 -
'I developed Pokémon'
Published: 15/02/2023 -
First Danish queen for 600 years
Published: 14/02/2023 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Published: 13/02/2023 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Published: 10/02/2023 -
The Pope and Jews
Published: 09/02/2023 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Published: 08/02/2023
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.
