Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
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1259 Episodes
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The first Tasers
Published: 11/18/2019 -
The first Indian to win Miss World
Published: 11/15/2019 -
The Love Canal disaster
Published: 11/14/2019 -
The demolition of the Babri Masjid
Published: 11/13/2019 -
Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail
Published: 11/12/2019 -
Memories of Wilfred Owen
Published: 11/11/2019 -
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall
Published: 11/8/2019 -
The Bhagalpur blindings
Published: 11/7/2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Published: 11/6/2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Published: 11/5/2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Published: 11/4/2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Published: 11/1/2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Published: 10/31/2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Published: 10/30/2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Published: 10/29/2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Published: 10/28/2019 -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Published: 10/25/2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Published: 10/24/2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Published: 10/23/2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Published: 10/22/2019
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.