Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
-
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Published: 11/04/2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Published: 10/04/2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Published: 09/04/2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Published: 08/04/2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Published: 07/04/2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Published: 04/04/2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Published: 03/04/2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Published: 02/04/2025 -
The invention of superglue
Published: 01/04/2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Published: 31/03/2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Published: 28/03/2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Published: 27/03/2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Published: 26/03/2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Published: 25/03/2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Published: 24/03/2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Published: 21/03/2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Published: 20/03/2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Published: 19/03/2025 -
First spacewalk
Published: 18/03/2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Published: 17/03/2025
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.
