Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1514 Episodio
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Discovering the Titanic
Pubblicato: 01/09/2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Pubblicato: 29/08/2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Pubblicato: 28/08/2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Pubblicato: 27/08/2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Pubblicato: 26/08/2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Pubblicato: 25/08/2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Pubblicato: 22/08/2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Pubblicato: 21/08/2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Pubblicato: 20/08/2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Pubblicato: 19/08/2025 -
Spot the Dog
Pubblicato: 18/08/2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Pubblicato: 15/08/2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Pubblicato: 14/08/2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Pubblicato: 13/08/2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Pubblicato: 12/08/2025 -
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
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.
