Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1578 Episodio
-
Ravi and George
Pubblicato: 28/11/2025 -
India goes to the UN
Pubblicato: 27/11/2025 -
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
Pubblicato: 26/11/2025 -
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Pubblicato: 25/11/2025 -
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
Pubblicato: 24/11/2025 -
How the Bosnian war ended
Pubblicato: 21/11/2025 -
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
Pubblicato: 20/11/2025 -
The death of Franco
Pubblicato: 19/11/2025 -
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Pubblicato: 18/11/2025 -
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
Pubblicato: 17/11/2025 -
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Pubblicato: 14/11/2025 -
Bataclan attack in Paris
Pubblicato: 13/11/2025 -
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Pubblicato: 12/11/2025 -
Birth of the G7
Pubblicato: 11/11/2025 -
Breaking the sound barrier
Pubblicato: 10/11/2025 -
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Pubblicato: 07/11/2025 -
The ‘father of e-books’
Pubblicato: 06/11/2025 -
The creation of Miffy
Pubblicato: 05/11/2025 -
President Clinton is impeached
Pubblicato: 04/11/2025 -
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Pubblicato: 03/11/2025
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.
