Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1505 Épisodes
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Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Publié: 28/05/2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Publié: 27/05/2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Publié: 26/05/2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Publié: 23/05/2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Publié: 22/05/2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Publié: 21/05/2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Publié: 20/05/2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Publié: 19/05/2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Publié: 16/05/2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Publié: 15/05/2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Publié: 14/05/2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Publié: 13/05/2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Publié: 12/05/2025 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publié: 09/05/2025 -
VE Day celebrations
Publié: 08/05/2025 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Publié: 07/05/2025 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Publié: 06/05/2025 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Publié: 05/05/2025 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Publié: 02/05/2025 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Publié: 01/05/2025
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.
