Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1499 Episodio
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The Santa Cruz Massacre
Pubblicato: 11/08/2025 -
1965 Singaporean independence
Pubblicato: 08/08/2025 -
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Pubblicato: 07/08/2025 -
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
Pubblicato: 06/08/2025 -
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Pubblicato: 05/08/2025 -
Nagasaki bomb
Pubblicato: 04/08/2025 -
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Pubblicato: 03/08/2025 -
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Pubblicato: 01/08/2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Pubblicato: 31/07/2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Pubblicato: 30/07/2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Pubblicato: 29/07/2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Pubblicato: 28/07/2025 -
A Chorus Line
Pubblicato: 25/07/2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Pubblicato: 24/07/2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Pubblicato: 23/07/2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Pubblicato: 22/07/2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Pubblicato: 21/07/2025 -
Italo disco
Pubblicato: 18/07/2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Pubblicato: 17/07/2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Pubblicato: 16/07/2025
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.
