Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
Published: 9/15/2020 -
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
Published: 9/14/2020 -
Why the US rejected universal healthcare
Published: 9/11/2020 -
Banning alcohol in an Indian state
Published: 9/10/2020 -
The birth of Reddit
Published: 9/9/2020 -
The Dawson's Field hijacking
Published: 9/9/2020 -
Haiti's cholera outbreak
Published: 9/8/2020 -
Care in the Community
Published: 9/4/2020 -
The Cape Town bombings
Published: 9/3/2020 -
The birth of the Sony Walkman
Published: 9/2/2020 -
Flying through a volcano
Published: 9/1/2020 -
Inventing James Bond
Published: 8/31/2020 -
Who has the right to vote in America?
Published: 8/28/2020 -
St Kilda
Published: 8/27/2020 -
Occupy Wall Street
Published: 8/26/2020 -
America's first woman combat pilot
Published: 8/25/2020 -
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Published: 8/24/2020 -
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Published: 8/21/2020 -
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
Published: 8/20/2020 -
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
Published: 8/20/2020
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.