Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service

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1422 Episodes
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The death of Adolf Hitler
Published: 4/25/2025 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Published: 4/24/2025 -
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Published: 4/23/2025 -
The creation of YouTube
Published: 4/22/2025 -
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Published: 4/21/2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Published: 4/18/2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Published: 4/17/2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Published: 4/16/2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Published: 4/16/2025 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Published: 4/14/2025 -
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Published: 4/11/2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Published: 4/10/2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Published: 4/9/2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Published: 4/8/2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Published: 4/7/2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Published: 4/4/2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Published: 4/3/2025 -
The wonder woman of DC Comics
Published: 4/2/2025 -
The invention of superglue
Published: 4/1/2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Published: 3/31/2025
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.