Witness History

A podcast by BBC World Service

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1259 Episodes

  1. Six Degrees: The first online social network

    Published: 4/8/2020
  2. The Trojan Room coffee pot

    Published: 4/7/2020
  3. The Homebrew computer club

    Published: 4/6/2020
  4. Being a Chinese Muslim

    Published: 4/3/2020
  5. The Swedish warship restored after 300 years

    Published: 4/2/2020
  6. Avenging the Amritsar Massacre

    Published: 4/1/2020
  7. The trembling giant

    Published: 3/31/2020
  8. Britain's first woman judge

    Published: 3/30/2020
  9. The AIDS Memorial Quilt

    Published: 3/27/2020
  10. The Cheonan sinking

    Published: 3/26/2020
  11. The Saudi bombardment of Yemen

    Published: 3/25/2020
  12. Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus

    Published: 3/24/2020
  13. The Chinese cure for malaria

    Published: 3/23/2020
  14. The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

    Published: 3/20/2020
  15. The 'I Love You' computer virus

    Published: 3/20/2020
  16. The Major and the VW Beetle

    Published: 3/20/2020
  17. Red Hollywood

    Published: 3/18/2020
  18. The fight to make sexual harassment a crime

    Published: 3/17/2020
  19. Marburg virus

    Published: 3/13/2020
  20. The SARS epidemic

    Published: 3/12/2020

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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.