Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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1965 Singaporean independence
Publicat: 08.08.2025 -
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Publicat: 07.08.2025 -
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
Publicat: 06.08.2025 -
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Publicat: 05.08.2025 -
Nagasaki bomb
Publicat: 04.08.2025 -
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Publicat: 03.08.2025 -
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Publicat: 01.08.2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Publicat: 31.07.2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Publicat: 30.07.2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Publicat: 29.07.2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Publicat: 28.07.2025 -
A Chorus Line
Publicat: 25.07.2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Publicat: 24.07.2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Publicat: 23.07.2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publicat: 22.07.2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Publicat: 21.07.2025 -
Italo disco
Publicat: 18.07.2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Publicat: 17.07.2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Publicat: 16.07.2025 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Publicat: 15.07.2025
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.
