Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodes
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The Bhagalpur blindings
Published: 11/7/2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Published: 11/6/2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Published: 11/5/2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Published: 11/4/2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Published: 11/1/2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Published: 10/31/2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Published: 10/30/2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Published: 10/29/2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Published: 10/28/2019 -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Published: 10/25/2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Published: 10/24/2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Published: 10/23/2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Published: 10/22/2019 -
The legalisation of Solidarity
Published: 10/21/2019 -
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Published: 10/18/2019 -
Britain's worst nuclear accident
Published: 10/17/2019 -
The man who fed the world
Published: 10/16/2019 -
Mexico City slashes car use
Published: 10/15/2019 -
Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
Published: 10/14/2019 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Published: 10/11/2019
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.