Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Publicat: 21.04.2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Publicat: 18.04.2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Publicat: 17.04.2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Publicat: 16.04.2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Publicat: 16.04.2025 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Publicat: 14.04.2025 -
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Publicat: 11.04.2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Publicat: 10.04.2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Publicat: 09.04.2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Publicat: 08.04.2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Publicat: 07.04.2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Publicat: 04.04.2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Publicat: 03.04.2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Publicat: 02.04.2025 -
The invention of superglue
Publicat: 01.04.2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Publicat: 31.03.2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Publicat: 28.03.2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Publicat: 27.03.2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Publicat: 26.03.2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Publicat: 25.03.2025
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.
