Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1495 Episodes
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Cuba's boxing ban
Published: 20/10/2022 -
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Published: 19/10/2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Published: 18/10/2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Published: 17/10/2022 -
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Published: 14/10/2022 -
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Published: 12/10/2022 -
Disney animators' strike
Published: 11/10/2022 -
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
Published: 10/10/2022 -
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
Published: 07/10/2022 -
The Harder They Come
Published: 06/10/2022 -
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
Published: 05/10/2022 -
The release of Gilad Shalit
Published: 04/10/2022 -
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Published: 03/10/2022 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Published: 30/09/2022 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Published: 29/09/2022 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Published: 28/09/2022 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Published: 26/09/2022 -
Festival of Light
Published: 23/09/2022 -
Iran-Iraq War begins
Published: 22/09/2022 -
The first Pope to visit Africa
Published: 21/09/2022
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.
