Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1495 Episodes
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Ancient fossils give new insight
Published: 20/09/2022 -
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Published: 19/09/2022 -
The last days of Queen Victoria
Published: 16/09/2022 -
When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace
Published: 15/09/2022 -
Windsor Castle fire
Published: 14/09/2022 -
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby
Published: 13/09/2022 -
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Published: 12/09/2022 -
The car that charmed Brazil
Published: 10/09/2022 -
The Candelaria child massacre
Published: 08/09/2022 -
Building of Brasilia
Published: 07/09/2022 -
The murder that shocked Brazil
Published: 06/09/2022 -
Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy
Published: 05/09/2022 -
Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya
Published: 02/09/2022 -
Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika
Published: 01/09/2022 -
Princess Diana dances with John Travolta
Published: 31/08/2022 -
The 'Last Indian'
Published: 30/08/2022 -
Marikana Massacre
Published: 29/08/2022 -
India's onion election
Published: 26/08/2022 -
The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard
Published: 25/08/2022 -
The Gay Games
Published: 24/08/2022
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.
