Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Published: 8/11/2021 -
Escaping from East Berlin
Published: 8/10/2021 -
The building of the Berlin Wall
Published: 8/9/2021 -
Gay activism in 1990s India
Published: 8/6/2021 -
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Published: 8/5/2021 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Published: 8/4/2021 -
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Published: 8/3/2021 -
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
Published: 8/2/2021 -
The Tsunami and Fukushima
Published: 7/30/2021 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Published: 7/29/2021 -
The soldier who never surrendered
Published: 7/28/2021 -
The birth of Karaoke
Published: 7/27/2021 -
Japan's Bullet Train
Published: 7/26/2021 -
When war came to Darfur
Published: 7/22/2021 -
Surviving Norway's day of terror
Published: 7/21/2021 -
The Battle of Gondar
Published: 7/20/2021 -
Domestic violence in Brazil
Published: 7/19/2021 -
England's summer of riots
Published: 7/16/2021 -
When the Taliban took Kabul
Published: 7/15/2021 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Published: 7/14/2021
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.