Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1575 Episoder
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Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Publisert: 25.11.2025 -
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
Publisert: 24.11.2025 -
How the Bosnian war ended
Publisert: 21.11.2025 -
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
Publisert: 20.11.2025 -
The death of Franco
Publisert: 19.11.2025 -
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Publisert: 18.11.2025 -
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
Publisert: 17.11.2025 -
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Publisert: 14.11.2025 -
Bataclan attack in Paris
Publisert: 13.11.2025 -
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Publisert: 12.11.2025 -
Birth of the G7
Publisert: 11.11.2025 -
Breaking the sound barrier
Publisert: 10.11.2025 -
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Publisert: 7.11.2025 -
The ‘father of e-books’
Publisert: 6.11.2025 -
The creation of Miffy
Publisert: 5.11.2025 -
President Clinton is impeached
Publisert: 4.11.2025 -
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Publisert: 3.11.2025 -
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Publisert: 31.10.2025 -
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Publisert: 30.10.2025 -
Srebrenica massacre
Publisert: 29.10.2025
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.
