Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodes
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Escaping from East Berlin
Published: 10/08/2021 -
The building of the Berlin Wall
Published: 09/08/2021 -
Gay activism in 1990s India
Published: 06/08/2021 -
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Published: 05/08/2021 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Published: 04/08/2021 -
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Published: 03/08/2021 -
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
Published: 02/08/2021 -
The Tsunami and Fukushima
Published: 30/07/2021 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Published: 29/07/2021 -
The soldier who never surrendered
Published: 28/07/2021 -
The birth of Karaoke
Published: 27/07/2021 -
Japan's Bullet Train
Published: 26/07/2021 -
When war came to Darfur
Published: 22/07/2021 -
Surviving Norway's day of terror
Published: 21/07/2021 -
The Battle of Gondar
Published: 20/07/2021 -
Domestic violence in Brazil
Published: 19/07/2021 -
England's summer of riots
Published: 16/07/2021 -
When the Taliban took Kabul
Published: 15/07/2021 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Published: 14/07/2021 -
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Published: 13/07/2021
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.
