Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
-
Bahrain's 2011 protests
Published: 12/23/2021 -
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Published: 12/22/2021 -
Rudolf Nureyev defects
Published: 12/21/2021 -
Tanzania's first elected albino MP
Published: 12/20/2021 -
Bangladesh wins independence
Published: 12/17/2021 -
On the front line in Bangladesh
Published: 12/16/2021 -
Rape as a weapon in Bangladesh
Published: 12/15/2021 -
The Bengali language movement
Published: 12/13/2021 -
The explosion heard by millions
Published: 12/10/2021 -
The Aldi kidnap
Published: 12/9/2021 -
Spies or plane-spotters?
Published: 12/8/2021 -
The V2 rocket
Published: 12/7/2021 -
Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
Published: 12/6/2021 -
Derek Jarman
Published: 12/3/2021 -
South Africa and Aids drugs
Published: 12/2/2021 -
AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids
Published: 12/1/2021 -
The early days of HIV/Aids
Published: 11/30/2021 -
The Aids 'patient zero' myth
Published: 11/29/2021 -
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Published: 11/26/2021 -
Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’
Published: 11/25/2021
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.