Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1500 Episodio
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Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Pubblicato: 21/05/2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Pubblicato: 20/05/2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Pubblicato: 19/05/2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Pubblicato: 16/05/2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Pubblicato: 15/05/2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Pubblicato: 14/05/2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Pubblicato: 13/05/2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Pubblicato: 12/05/2025 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Pubblicato: 09/05/2025 -
VE Day celebrations
Pubblicato: 08/05/2025 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Pubblicato: 07/05/2025 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Pubblicato: 06/05/2025 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Pubblicato: 05/05/2025 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Pubblicato: 02/05/2025 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Pubblicato: 01/05/2025 -
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Pubblicato: 30/04/2025 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Pubblicato: 29/04/2025 -
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
Pubblicato: 28/04/2025 -
The death of Adolf Hitler
Pubblicato: 25/04/2025 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Pubblicato: 24/04/2025
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.
