Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1498 Episodes
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South Africa and Aids drugs
Published: 02/12/2021 -
AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids
Published: 01/12/2021 -
The early days of HIV/Aids
Published: 30/11/2021 -
The Aids 'patient zero' myth
Published: 29/11/2021 -
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Published: 26/11/2021 -
Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’
Published: 25/11/2021 -
The doctor who helped her mother to die
Published: 24/11/2021 -
Europe's last smallpox epidemic
Published: 23/11/2021 -
The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt
Published: 22/11/2021 -
Sudan's October Revolution
Published: 18/11/2021 -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Published: 17/11/2021 -
The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic
Published: 16/11/2021 -
Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
Published: 15/11/2021 -
Shoot: A milestone in performance art
Published: 15/11/2021 -
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Published: 11/11/2021 -
Spying in Berlin
Published: 10/11/2021 -
Chanel No. 5
Published: 09/11/2021 -
Britain's Black Schools
Published: 08/11/2021 -
When Eritrea silenced its critics
Published: 05/11/2021 -
The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
Published: 04/11/2021
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.
