Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1498 Episodes
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With the president on 9/11
Published: 08/09/2021 -
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
Published: 07/09/2021 -
The warnings before 9/11
Published: 06/09/2021 -
North Korea's founding father
Published: 03/09/2021 -
The businessman who defied the Mafia
Published: 02/09/2021 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon
Published: 01/09/2021 -
The first modern electric car
Published: 31/08/2021 -
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Published: 27/08/2021 -
Syria's rebel poet
Published: 26/08/2021 -
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Published: 25/08/2021 -
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Published: 24/08/2021 -
John Maynard Keynes
Published: 23/08/2021 -
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Published: 20/08/2021 -
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
Published: 19/08/2021 -
India's secret freedom radio
Published: 18/08/2021 -
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
Published: 17/08/2021 -
The man who coined the term genocide
Published: 16/08/2021 -
Inside an East German jail
Published: 13/08/2021 -
East Germany's nudists
Published: 12/08/2021 -
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Published: 11/08/2021
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.
