Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Publicat: 16.06.2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Publicat: 13.06.2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Publicat: 12.06.2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Publicat: 11.06.2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Publicat: 10.06.2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Publicat: 09.06.2025 -
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Publicat: 06.06.2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publicat: 05.06.2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publicat: 04.06.2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publicat: 03.06.2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Publicat: 02.06.2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Publicat: 30.05.2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Publicat: 29.05.2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Publicat: 28.05.2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Publicat: 27.05.2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Publicat: 26.05.2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Publicat: 23.05.2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Publicat: 22.05.2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Publicat: 21.05.2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Publicat: 20.05.2025
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.
