Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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The lost Nazi-era art trove
Published: 7/2/2020 -
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Published: 7/1/2020 -
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Published: 6/30/2020 -
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
Published: 6/29/2020 -
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
Published: 6/26/2020 -
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
Published: 6/25/2020 -
Tanzania's socialist experiment
Published: 6/24/2020 -
South Korea's economic miracle
Published: 6/23/2020 -
The New Deal
Published: 6/22/2020 -
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
Published: 6/19/2020 -
The friendship train
Published: 6/18/2020 -
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Published: 6/17/2020 -
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Published: 6/16/2020 -
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
Published: 6/15/2020 -
Three Strikes Law
Published: 6/12/2020 -
Rodney King and the LA riots
Published: 6/11/2020 -
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
Published: 6/10/2020 -
The 16th Street church bombing
Published: 6/9/2020 -
Brown v the Board of Education
Published: 6/8/2020 -
The portable defibrillator
Published: 6/5/2020
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.