Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1498 Episodes
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The first Emirati female teacher
Published: 03/02/2022 -
The day the world looked up
Published: 02/02/2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Published: 01/02/2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Published: 28/01/2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Published: 27/01/2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Published: 26/01/2022 -
Bloody Sunday
Published: 25/01/2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Published: 24/01/2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Published: 21/01/2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Published: 20/01/2022 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Published: 20/01/2022 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Published: 17/01/2022 -
The first silicone breast implants
Published: 14/01/2022 -
Costa Concordia
Published: 13/01/2022 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Published: 12/01/2022 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Published: 11/01/2022 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Published: 10/01/2022 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Published: 06/01/2022 -
Marcel Proust
Published: 05/01/2022 -
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Published: 04/01/2022
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.
