Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodes
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The Fall of Madrid
Published: 11/06/2021 -
The elections that Hamas won
Published: 10/06/2021 -
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
Published: 09/06/2021 -
Tunisia’s legal brothels
Published: 08/06/2021 -
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Published: 07/06/2021 -
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Published: 04/06/2021 -
Afghanistan's poppy problem
Published: 03/06/2021 -
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
Published: 02/06/2021 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Published: 01/06/2021 -
The war on drugs
Published: 31/05/2021 -
The Tulsa Race Massacre
Published: 28/05/2021 -
Rock concert for Chernobyl
Published: 27/05/2021 -
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Published: 26/05/2021 -
The first Arab woman pilot
Published: 25/05/2021 -
The strike that shocked India
Published: 24/05/2021 -
Fighting forced marriage in war
Published: 21/05/2021 -
Saving the world's wetlands
Published: 20/05/2021 -
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Published: 18/05/2021 -
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
Published: 17/05/2021 -
China's Democracy Wall
Published: 14/05/2021
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.
