Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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The missing victims of apartheid
Published: 10/22/2020 -
The Cutter Incident
Published: 10/21/2020 -
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Published: 10/20/2020 -
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Published: 10/19/2020 -
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Published: 10/16/2020 -
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
Published: 10/15/2020 -
The last of the Kazakh herders
Published: 10/14/2020 -
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
Published: 10/13/2020 -
The launch of CNN
Published: 10/12/2020 -
The Battle of Lewisham
Published: 10/9/2020 -
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Published: 10/8/2020 -
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Published: 10/7/2020 -
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Published: 10/6/2020 -
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
Published: 10/5/2020 -
The house by the lake
Published: 10/2/2020 -
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Published: 10/1/2020 -
The founding of Google
Published: 9/30/2020 -
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
Published: 9/29/2020 -
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Published: 9/28/2020 -
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
Published: 9/25/2020
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.