Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1578 Episoade
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The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Publicat: 03.10.2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Publicat: 02.10.2025 -
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
Publicat: 01.10.2025 -
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
Publicat: 30.09.2025 -
The Cradock Four killings
Publicat: 29.09.2025 -
Guinea stadium massacre
Publicat: 26.09.2025 -
The secretary who made millions from her typos
Publicat: 25.09.2025 -
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
Publicat: 24.09.2025 -
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
Publicat: 23.09.2025 -
The start of Scouting
Publicat: 22.09.2025 -
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
Publicat: 19.09.2025 -
The Aswan High Dam
Publicat: 18.09.2025 -
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Publicat: 17.09.2025 -
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Publicat: 16.09.2025 -
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
Publicat: 15.09.2025 -
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
Publicat: 12.09.2025 -
9/11: The generosity of Gander
Publicat: 10.09.2025 -
The story behind The Peter Principle book
Publicat: 10.09.2025 -
The Enabling Act
Publicat: 09.09.2025 -
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
Publicat: 08.09.2025
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.
