Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1493 Episodo
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Intervision Song Contest
Publicado: 12/5/2025 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publicado: 9/5/2025 -
VE Day celebrations
Publicado: 8/5/2025 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Publicado: 7/5/2025 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Publicado: 6/5/2025 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Publicado: 5/5/2025 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Publicado: 2/5/2025 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Publicado: 1/5/2025 -
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Publicado: 30/4/2025 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Publicado: 29/4/2025 -
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
Publicado: 28/4/2025 -
The death of Adolf Hitler
Publicado: 25/4/2025 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Publicado: 24/4/2025 -
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Publicado: 23/4/2025 -
The creation of YouTube
Publicado: 22/4/2025 -
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Publicado: 21/4/2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Publicado: 18/4/2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Publicado: 17/4/2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Publicado: 16/4/2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Publicado: 16/4/2025
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.
