Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1494 Episodes
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Inventing robot camel jockeys
Published: 16/11/2022 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Published: 15/11/2022 -
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Published: 14/11/2022 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Published: 11/11/2022 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Published: 10/11/2022 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Published: 09/11/2022 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Published: 08/11/2022 -
Polynesian Panthers
Published: 07/11/2022 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Published: 04/11/2022 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Published: 03/11/2022 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Published: 02/11/2022 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Published: 01/11/2022 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Published: 31/10/2022 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Published: 28/10/2022 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Published: 27/10/2022 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Published: 26/10/2022 -
The Iranian Revolution and women
Published: 25/10/2022 -
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Published: 24/10/2022 -
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Published: 21/10/2022 -
Cuba's boxing ban
Published: 20/10/2022
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.
