Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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The start of Voice of America
Publicat: 14.07.2025 -
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Publicat: 11.07.2025 -
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Publicat: 10.07.2025 -
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
Publicat: 09.07.2025 -
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Publicat: 08.07.2025 -
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Publicat: 07.07.2025 -
Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Publicat: 04.07.2025 -
Back to the Future
Publicat: 03.07.2025 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Publicat: 02.07.2025 -
Cecil the lion
Publicat: 01.07.2025 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Publicat: 30.06.2025 -
Italian happiness trains
Publicat: 27.06.2025 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Publicat: 26.06.2025 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Publicat: 25.06.2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Publicat: 24.06.2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Publicat: 23.06.2025 -
Making Jaws
Publicat: 20.06.2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Publicat: 19.06.2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Publicat: 18.06.2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Publicat: 17.06.2025
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.
