Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
Categories:
1259 Episodes
-
The demise of the Soviet Union
Published: 2/7/2022 -
The first Emirati female teacher
Published: 2/3/2022 -
The day the world looked up
Published: 2/2/2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Published: 2/1/2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Published: 1/28/2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Published: 1/27/2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Published: 1/26/2022 -
Bloody Sunday
Published: 1/25/2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Published: 1/24/2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Published: 1/21/2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Published: 1/20/2022 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Published: 1/20/2022 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Published: 1/17/2022 -
The first silicone breast implants
Published: 1/14/2022 -
Costa Concordia
Published: 1/13/2022 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Published: 1/12/2022 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Published: 1/11/2022 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Published: 1/10/2022 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Published: 1/6/2022 -
Marcel Proust
Published: 1/5/2022
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.