Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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The Million Man March
Published: 7/21/2020 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Published: 7/20/2020 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Published: 7/17/2020 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Published: 7/16/2020 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Published: 7/15/2020 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Published: 7/14/2020 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Published: 7/13/2020 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Published: 7/10/2020 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Published: 7/9/2020 -
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
Published: 7/8/2020 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Published: 7/7/2020 -
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
Published: 7/6/2020 -
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
Published: 7/3/2020 -
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Published: 7/2/2020 -
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Published: 7/1/2020 -
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Published: 6/30/2020 -
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
Published: 6/29/2020 -
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
Published: 6/26/2020 -
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
Published: 6/25/2020 -
Tanzania's socialist experiment
Published: 6/24/2020
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.