Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
Udgivet: 5.9.2025 -
World's first womb transplant baby
Udgivet: 4.9.2025 -
The Chindits
Udgivet: 3.9.2025 -
The founding of USAID
Udgivet: 2.9.2025 -
Discovering the Titanic
Udgivet: 1.9.2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Udgivet: 29.8.2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Udgivet: 28.8.2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Udgivet: 27.8.2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Udgivet: 26.8.2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Udgivet: 25.8.2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Udgivet: 22.8.2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Udgivet: 21.8.2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Udgivet: 20.8.2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Udgivet: 19.8.2025 -
Spot the Dog
Udgivet: 18.8.2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Udgivet: 15.8.2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Udgivet: 14.8.2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Udgivet: 13.8.2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Udgivet: 12.8.2025 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Udgivet: 11.8.2025
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.
