Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
Publisert: 5.9.2025 -
World's first womb transplant baby
Publisert: 4.9.2025 -
The Chindits
Publisert: 3.9.2025 -
The founding of USAID
Publisert: 2.9.2025 -
Discovering the Titanic
Publisert: 1.9.2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Publisert: 29.8.2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Publisert: 28.8.2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Publisert: 27.8.2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Publisert: 26.8.2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Publisert: 25.8.2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Publisert: 22.8.2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Publisert: 21.8.2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Publisert: 20.8.2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Publisert: 19.8.2025 -
Spot the Dog
Publisert: 18.8.2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Publisert: 15.8.2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Publisert: 14.8.2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Publisert: 13.8.2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Publisert: 12.8.2025 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Publisert: 11.8.2025
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.
