Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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The vultures saved from extinction
Published: 4/15/2021 -
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Published: 4/14/2021 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Published: 4/13/2021 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Published: 4/12/2021 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Published: 4/9/2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Published: 4/8/2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Published: 4/7/2021 -
Mexico's female serial killer
Published: 4/6/2021 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Published: 4/5/2021 -
Black Jesus
Published: 4/2/2021 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Published: 4/1/2021 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Published: 3/31/2021 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Published: 3/30/2021 -
Anorexia nervosa
Published: 3/29/2021 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Published: 3/25/2021 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Published: 3/24/2021 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Published: 3/23/2021 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Published: 3/22/2021 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Published: 3/19/2021 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Published: 3/18/2021
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.