Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Published: 11/19/2020 -
America's WW2 refugee camp
Published: 11/18/2020 -
The world's first woman premier
Published: 11/17/2020 -
Captured by Somali pirates
Published: 11/16/2020 -
The 'good enough' mother
Published: 11/13/2020 -
When Pluto lost its planet status
Published: 11/12/2020 -
World War One in Africa
Published: 11/11/2020 -
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Published: 11/10/2020 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Published: 11/9/2020 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Published: 11/6/2020 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Published: 11/5/2020 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Published: 11/4/2020 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Published: 11/3/2020 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Published: 11/2/2020 -
With the president on 9/11
Published: 10/30/2020 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Published: 10/29/2020 -
The Watergate scandal
Published: 10/28/2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Published: 10/27/2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Published: 10/26/2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Published: 10/23/2020
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.