Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1496 Episodes
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Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
Published: 29/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner
Published: 28/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: The handover
Published: 27/06/2022 -
The UK's first official gay Pride March
Published: 24/06/2022 -
Egypt's first democratic presidential election
Published: 23/06/2022 -
The killing of Vincent Chin
Published: 22/06/2022 -
Robot Surgeon
Published: 21/06/2022 -
India's surrogacy capital
Published: 20/06/2022 -
Cambodia war crimes
Published: 17/06/2022 -
James Joyce and Ulysses
Published: 16/06/2022 -
New York's LGBT High School
Published: 15/06/2022 -
Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
Published: 14/06/2022 -
Holy Cross school dispute
Published: 13/06/2022 -
The Gulabi Gang
Published: 10/06/2022 -
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Published: 09/06/2022 -
Saving Gabon's rainforest
Published: 08/06/2022 -
The Diary of Anne Frank
Published: 07/06/2022 -
The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Published: 06/06/2022 -
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Published: 03/06/2022 -
Sarin attack in Syria
Published: 02/06/2022
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.
