Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
Publicat: 05.09.2025 -
World's first womb transplant baby
Publicat: 04.09.2025 -
The Chindits
Publicat: 03.09.2025 -
The founding of USAID
Publicat: 02.09.2025 -
Discovering the Titanic
Publicat: 01.09.2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Publicat: 29.08.2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Publicat: 28.08.2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Publicat: 27.08.2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Publicat: 26.08.2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Publicat: 25.08.2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Publicat: 22.08.2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Publicat: 21.08.2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Publicat: 20.08.2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Publicat: 19.08.2025 -
Spot the Dog
Publicat: 18.08.2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Publicat: 15.08.2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Publicat: 14.08.2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Publicat: 13.08.2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Publicat: 12.08.2025 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Publicat: 11.08.2025
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.
