Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1578 Episodio
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The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Pubblicato: 03/10/2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Pubblicato: 02/10/2025 -
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
Pubblicato: 01/10/2025 -
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
Pubblicato: 30/09/2025 -
The Cradock Four killings
Pubblicato: 29/09/2025 -
Guinea stadium massacre
Pubblicato: 26/09/2025 -
The secretary who made millions from her typos
Pubblicato: 25/09/2025 -
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
Pubblicato: 24/09/2025 -
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
Pubblicato: 23/09/2025 -
The start of Scouting
Pubblicato: 22/09/2025 -
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
Pubblicato: 19/09/2025 -
The Aswan High Dam
Pubblicato: 18/09/2025 -
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Pubblicato: 17/09/2025 -
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Pubblicato: 16/09/2025 -
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
Pubblicato: 15/09/2025 -
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
Pubblicato: 12/09/2025 -
9/11: The generosity of Gander
Pubblicato: 10/09/2025 -
The story behind The Peter Principle book
Pubblicato: 10/09/2025 -
The Enabling Act
Pubblicato: 09/09/2025 -
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
Pubblicato: 08/09/2025
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.
