Witness History

A podcast by BBC World Service

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Society & Culture History

1422 Episodes

  1. How Cancún became a tourist destination

    Published: 6/18/2024

  2. The first budget transatlantic flights

    Published: 6/17/2024

  3. Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth

    Published: 6/14/2024

  4. Kielland disaster

    Published: 6/13/2024

  5. The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid

    Published: 6/12/2024

  6. Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza

    Published: 6/11/2024

  7. Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters

    Published: 6/10/2024

  8. The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush

    Published: 6/7/2024

  9. Saving lives on D-Day

    Published: 6/6/2024

  10. The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

    Published: 6/5/2024

  11. Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite

    Published: 6/4/2024

  12. ‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan

    Published: 6/3/2024

  13. The commercial that changed advertising: 1984

    Published: 5/31/2024

  14. The Flint water crisis

    Published: 5/30/2024

  15. The first Aboriginal MP

    Published: 5/29/2024

  16. The first ever quintuplets

    Published: 5/28/2024

  17. Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'

    Published: 5/27/2024

  18. How Air Jordans were created

    Published: 5/24/2024

  19. Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection

    Published: 5/23/2024

  20. Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession

    Published: 5/22/2024

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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.