Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Published: 14/02/2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Published: 13/02/2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Published: 12/02/2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Published: 11/02/2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war
Published: 10/02/2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Published: 07/02/2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Published: 06/02/2025 -
Cuban blindness
Published: 05/02/2025 -
Oradour massacre
Published: 04/02/2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Published: 03/02/2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Published: 31/01/2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Published: 30/01/2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Published: 29/01/2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Published: 28/01/2025 -
The Milltown Cemetery attack
Published: 27/01/2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Published: 24/01/2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Published: 23/01/2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Published: 22/01/2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Published: 21/01/2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Published: 20/01/2025
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.
