Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1518 Episodo
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‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
Publicado: 5/9/2025 -
World's first womb transplant baby
Publicado: 4/9/2025 -
The Chindits
Publicado: 3/9/2025 -
The founding of USAID
Publicado: 2/9/2025 -
Discovering the Titanic
Publicado: 1/9/2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Publicado: 29/8/2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Publicado: 28/8/2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Publicado: 27/8/2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Publicado: 26/8/2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Publicado: 25/8/2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Publicado: 22/8/2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Publicado: 21/8/2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Publicado: 20/8/2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Publicado: 19/8/2025 -
Spot the Dog
Publicado: 18/8/2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Publicado: 15/8/2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Publicado: 14/8/2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Publicado: 13/8/2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Publicado: 12/8/2025 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Publicado: 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.
