Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1500 Episodio
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Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Pubblicato: 23/04/2025 -
The creation of YouTube
Pubblicato: 22/04/2025 -
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Pubblicato: 21/04/2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Pubblicato: 18/04/2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Pubblicato: 17/04/2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Pubblicato: 16/04/2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Pubblicato: 16/04/2025 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Pubblicato: 14/04/2025 -
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Pubblicato: 11/04/2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Pubblicato: 10/04/2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Pubblicato: 09/04/2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Pubblicato: 08/04/2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Pubblicato: 07/04/2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Pubblicato: 04/04/2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Pubblicato: 03/04/2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Pubblicato: 02/04/2025 -
The invention of superglue
Pubblicato: 01/04/2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Pubblicato: 31/03/2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Pubblicato: 28/03/2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Pubblicato: 27/03/2025
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.
