Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
Published: 8/18/2022 -
The last Viceroy of India
Published: 8/17/2022 -
India's Partition - Part Two
Published: 8/16/2022 -
India's Partition - Part One
Published: 8/15/2022 -
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Published: 8/12/2022 -
Discovering Hale Bopp
Published: 8/11/2022 -
Indonesia's forest fires
Published: 8/10/2022 -
Sweden’s pronoun battle
Published: 8/9/2022 -
The resignation of President Nixon
Published: 8/8/2022 -
The return of Asians to Uganda
Published: 8/5/2022 -
The city shaped by Ugandan Asians
Published: 8/4/2022 -
The exodus of Asians from Uganda
Published: 8/3/2022 -
When Asians were forced to leave Kenya
Published: 8/2/2022 -
Why Asians came to Uganda
Published: 8/1/2022 -
The Leaflet Bomber
Published: 8/1/2022 -
The Tangshan Earthquake
Published: 7/28/2022 -
Inventing nicotine patches
Published: 7/27/2022 -
The Surkov leaks
Published: 7/26/2022 -
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Published: 7/25/2022 -
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
Published: 7/22/2022
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.