Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Publicat: 19.05.2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Publicat: 16.05.2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Publicat: 15.05.2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Publicat: 14.05.2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Publicat: 13.05.2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Publicat: 12.05.2025 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publicat: 09.05.2025 -
VE Day celebrations
Publicat: 08.05.2025 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Publicat: 07.05.2025 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Publicat: 06.05.2025 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Publicat: 05.05.2025 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Publicat: 02.05.2025 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Publicat: 01.05.2025 -
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Publicat: 30.04.2025 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Publicat: 29.04.2025 -
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
Publicat: 28.04.2025 -
The death of Adolf Hitler
Publicat: 25.04.2025 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Publicat: 24.04.2025 -
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Publicat: 23.04.2025 -
The creation of YouTube
Publicat: 22.04.2025
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.
