Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1570 Episodo
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Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules
Publicado: 18/11/2025 -
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
Publicado: 17/11/2025 -
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Publicado: 14/11/2025 -
Bataclan attack in Paris
Publicado: 13/11/2025 -
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Publicado: 12/11/2025 -
Birth of the G7
Publicado: 11/11/2025 -
Breaking the sound barrier
Publicado: 10/11/2025 -
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Publicado: 7/11/2025 -
The ‘father of e-books’
Publicado: 6/11/2025 -
The creation of Miffy
Publicado: 5/11/2025 -
President Clinton is impeached
Publicado: 4/11/2025 -
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Publicado: 3/11/2025 -
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Publicado: 31/10/2025 -
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Publicado: 30/10/2025 -
Srebrenica massacre
Publicado: 29/10/2025 -
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Publicado: 28/10/2025 -
Death of a priest
Publicado: 27/10/2025 -
The man who invented the scratch card
Publicado: 24/10/2025 -
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
Publicado: 23/10/2025 -
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Publicado: 22/10/2025
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.
