Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publisert: 9.5.2025 -
VE Day celebrations
Publisert: 8.5.2025 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Publisert: 7.5.2025 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Publisert: 6.5.2025 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Publisert: 5.5.2025 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Publisert: 2.5.2025 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Publisert: 1.5.2025 -
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Publisert: 30.4.2025 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Publisert: 29.4.2025 -
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
Publisert: 28.4.2025 -
The death of Adolf Hitler
Publisert: 25.4.2025 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Publisert: 24.4.2025 -
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Publisert: 23.4.2025 -
The creation of YouTube
Publisert: 22.4.2025 -
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Publisert: 21.4.2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Publisert: 18.4.2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Publisert: 17.4.2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Publisert: 16.4.2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Publisert: 16.4.2025 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Publisert: 14.4.2025
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.
