Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episoade
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The Germanwings plane crash
Publicat: 24.03.2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Publicat: 21.03.2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Publicat: 20.03.2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Publicat: 19.03.2025 -
First spacewalk
Publicat: 18.03.2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Publicat: 17.03.2025 -
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Publicat: 14.03.2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Publicat: 13.03.2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Publicat: 12.03.2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Publicat: 11.03.2025 -
The invention of GPS
Publicat: 10.03.2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Publicat: 07.03.2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Publicat: 06.03.2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Publicat: 05.03.2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Publicat: 04.03.2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Publicat: 03.03.2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Publicat: 28.02.2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Publicat: 27.02.2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Publicat: 26.02.2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Publicat: 25.02.2025
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.
