Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1578 Episodo
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The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Publicado: 3/10/2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Publicado: 2/10/2025 -
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
Publicado: 1/10/2025 -
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
Publicado: 30/9/2025 -
The Cradock Four killings
Publicado: 29/9/2025 -
Guinea stadium massacre
Publicado: 26/9/2025 -
The secretary who made millions from her typos
Publicado: 25/9/2025 -
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
Publicado: 24/9/2025 -
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
Publicado: 23/9/2025 -
The start of Scouting
Publicado: 22/9/2025 -
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
Publicado: 19/9/2025 -
The Aswan High Dam
Publicado: 18/9/2025 -
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Publicado: 17/9/2025 -
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Publicado: 16/9/2025 -
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
Publicado: 15/9/2025 -
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
Publicado: 12/9/2025 -
9/11: The generosity of Gander
Publicado: 10/9/2025 -
The story behind The Peter Principle book
Publicado: 10/9/2025 -
The Enabling Act
Publicado: 9/9/2025 -
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
Publicado: 8/9/2025
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.
