Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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Six Degrees: The first online social network
Published: 4/8/2020 -
The Trojan Room coffee pot
Published: 4/7/2020 -
The Homebrew computer club
Published: 4/6/2020 -
Being a Chinese Muslim
Published: 4/3/2020 -
The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
Published: 4/2/2020 -
Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
Published: 4/1/2020 -
The trembling giant
Published: 3/31/2020 -
Britain's first woman judge
Published: 3/30/2020 -
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Published: 3/27/2020 -
The Cheonan sinking
Published: 3/26/2020 -
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
Published: 3/25/2020 -
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
Published: 3/24/2020 -
The Chinese cure for malaria
Published: 3/23/2020 -
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Published: 3/20/2020 -
The 'I Love You' computer virus
Published: 3/20/2020 -
The Major and the VW Beetle
Published: 3/20/2020 -
Red Hollywood
Published: 3/18/2020 -
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
Published: 3/17/2020 -
Marburg virus
Published: 3/13/2020 -
The SARS epidemic
Published: 3/12/2020
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.