Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1497 Episodes
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The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Published: 06/04/2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Published: 05/04/2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Published: 01/04/2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Published: 31/03/2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Published: 30/03/2022 -
Banksy’s first street art mural
Published: 29/03/2022 -
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Published: 28/03/2022 -
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Published: 25/03/2022 -
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
Published: 24/03/2022 -
The Budapest Memorandum
Published: 22/03/2022 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Published: 21/03/2022 -
The Shard
Published: 18/03/2022 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Published: 17/03/2022 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Published: 16/03/2022 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Published: 15/03/2022 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Published: 14/03/2022 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Published: 11/03/2022 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Published: 10/03/2022 -
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Published: 09/03/2022 -
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
Published: 04/03/2022
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.
