Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Published: 14/03/2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Published: 13/03/2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Published: 12/03/2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Published: 11/03/2025 -
The invention of GPS
Published: 10/03/2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Published: 07/03/2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Published: 06/03/2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Published: 05/03/2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Published: 04/03/2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Published: 03/03/2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Published: 28/02/2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Published: 27/02/2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Published: 26/02/2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Published: 25/02/2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Published: 24/02/2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Published: 21/02/2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Published: 20/02/2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Published: 19/02/2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Published: 18/02/2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Published: 17/02/2025
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.
