Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1500 Episodio
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The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Pubblicato: 26/03/2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Pubblicato: 25/03/2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Pubblicato: 24/03/2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Pubblicato: 21/03/2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Pubblicato: 20/03/2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Pubblicato: 19/03/2025 -
First spacewalk
Pubblicato: 18/03/2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Pubblicato: 17/03/2025 -
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Pubblicato: 14/03/2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Pubblicato: 13/03/2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Pubblicato: 12/03/2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Pubblicato: 11/03/2025 -
The invention of GPS
Pubblicato: 10/03/2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Pubblicato: 07/03/2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Pubblicato: 06/03/2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Pubblicato: 05/03/2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Pubblicato: 04/03/2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Pubblicato: 03/03/2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Pubblicato: 28/02/2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Pubblicato: 27/02/2025
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.
