Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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The Great American Grain Robbery
Published: 4/8/2022 -
The handshake in Space
Published: 4/7/2022 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Published: 4/6/2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Published: 4/5/2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Published: 4/1/2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Published: 3/31/2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Published: 3/30/2022 -
Banksy’s first street art mural
Published: 3/29/2022 -
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Published: 3/28/2022 -
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Published: 3/25/2022 -
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
Published: 3/24/2022 -
The Budapest Memorandum
Published: 3/22/2022 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Published: 3/21/2022 -
The Shard
Published: 3/18/2022 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Published: 3/17/2022 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Published: 3/16/2022 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Published: 3/15/2022 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Published: 3/14/2022 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Published: 3/11/2022 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Published: 3/10/2022
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.