Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1578 Episoade
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Ravi and George
Publicat: 28.11.2025 -
India goes to the UN
Publicat: 27.11.2025 -
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
Publicat: 26.11.2025 -
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Publicat: 25.11.2025 -
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
Publicat: 24.11.2025 -
How the Bosnian war ended
Publicat: 21.11.2025 -
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
Publicat: 20.11.2025 -
The death of Franco
Publicat: 19.11.2025 -
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Publicat: 18.11.2025 -
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
Publicat: 17.11.2025 -
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Publicat: 14.11.2025 -
Bataclan attack in Paris
Publicat: 13.11.2025 -
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Publicat: 12.11.2025 -
Birth of the G7
Publicat: 11.11.2025 -
Breaking the sound barrier
Publicat: 10.11.2025 -
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Publicat: 07.11.2025 -
The ‘father of e-books’
Publicat: 06.11.2025 -
The creation of Miffy
Publicat: 05.11.2025 -
President Clinton is impeached
Publicat: 04.11.2025 -
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Publicat: 03.11.2025
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.
