Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Publisert: 11.4.2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Publisert: 10.4.2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Publisert: 9.4.2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Publisert: 8.4.2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Publisert: 7.4.2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Publisert: 4.4.2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Publisert: 3.4.2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Publisert: 2.4.2025 -
The invention of superglue
Publisert: 1.4.2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Publisert: 31.3.2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Publisert: 28.3.2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Publisert: 27.3.2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Publisert: 26.3.2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Publisert: 25.3.2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Publisert: 24.3.2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Publisert: 21.3.2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Publisert: 20.3.2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Publisert: 19.3.2025 -
First spacewalk
Publisert: 18.3.2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Publisert: 17.3.2025
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.
