Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1498 Episodes
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A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
Published: 06/10/2021 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Published: 05/10/2021 -
London's first black policeman
Published: 04/10/2021 -
The Tanker War
Published: 01/10/2021 -
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
Published: 30/09/2021 -
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
Published: 29/09/2021 -
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Published: 28/09/2021 -
The rise of the Taliban
Published: 27/09/2021 -
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
Published: 24/09/2021 -
James Bond on screen
Published: 23/09/2021 -
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Published: 22/09/2021 -
Mexico's miracle water
Published: 21/09/2021 -
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
Published: 20/09/2021 -
The Peter Principle
Published: 17/09/2021 -
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
Published: 16/09/2021 -
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Published: 15/09/2021 -
The lost king of France
Published: 14/09/2021 -
The Attica prison rebellion
Published: 13/09/2021 -
9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
Published: 10/09/2021 -
America attacks Afghanistan
Published: 09/09/2021
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.
