Podcast

Witness History

Author: BBC
Feed episode count: 2000
Official site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
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Summary

Witness History is a short BBC World Service podcast about history that takes you inside big moments from the past through first-hand testimony and archive. Each weekday, in around nine minutes, we revisit one moment that helped shape the world and hear it through the voice of someone who was there. Scientists, artists, campaigners, soldiers, leaders and everyday people tell their true stories. When you subscribe to Witness History, you’ll be taken inside turning points in world affairs, from West Africa’s fight back against Boko Haram in 2015, to the behind-closed-doors talks that led to the US-Cuba “thaw” and the surprise announcement of restored relations. You’ll discover what it was like to experience disasters and how people recovered from them, including the Tabasco floods in Mexico, Portugal's worst train disaster, and the huge clean-up after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. You’ll explore culture and ideas too: Sweden’s Expedition Robinson, often credited as the first modern reality TV game show; the friendship between The Beatles’ George Harrison and Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar; and the night a tiger attack brought Las Vegas superstars Siegfried and Roy’s show to a sudden…

Episodes

Jul 1, 2026 · not_requested

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Duration seconds: 586
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9889

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Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested

The final journey of Chief Long Wolf

Duration seconds: 643
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9861

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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

Hawaii becomes the 50th American state

Duration seconds: 635
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3h

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Jun 26, 2026 · not_requested

Rata de dos patas: Mexico’s famous insult song

Duration seconds: 637
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98ds

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Jun 25, 2026 · not_requested

WW1: The Battle of the Somme

Duration seconds: 639
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bj

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Jun 23, 2026 · not_requested

How Aussies taught kids to stay safe in the sun

Duration seconds: 641
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9888

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Jun 23, 2026 · not_requested

Brexit: Ireland watches the vote unfold

Duration seconds: 633
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9860

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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

China detains Hong Kong booksellers

Duration seconds: 633
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3g

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Jun 19, 2026 · not_requested

The discovery of Lyme disease

Duration seconds: 641
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dr

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Jun 18, 2026 · not_requested

The discovery of Mungo Man

Duration seconds: 641
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bh

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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march

Duration seconds: 640
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9887

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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

50 years since the Soweto Uprising

Duration seconds: 633
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985z

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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia

Duration seconds: 632
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3f

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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king

Duration seconds: 638
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dq

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Jun 11, 2026 · not_requested

The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters

Duration seconds: 644
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bg

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Jun 10, 2026 · not_requested

Picasso and the Surrealist summer

Duration seconds: 648
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9886

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Jun 9, 2026 · not_requested

Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist

Duration seconds: 630
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985y

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island

Duration seconds: 613
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3d

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Jun 5, 2026 · not_requested

The creation of Inspector Montalbano

Duration seconds: 642
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dp

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Jun 4, 2026 · not_requested

The protests that sparked the Tiananmen Square massacre

Duration seconds: 557
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bf

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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

Australia's first Big Thing

Duration seconds: 653
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9885

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Jun 2, 2026 · not_requested

The first Irish language television channel

Duration seconds: 552
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985x

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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Recording the Eichmann interviews

Duration seconds: 619
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3c

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Filming Titanic in Mexico

Duration seconds: 614
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dn

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May 28, 2026 · not_requested

I escaped Mexico's deadly gas explosion

Duration seconds: 622
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bd

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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

I fought for Mexico’s indigenous women to get political equality

Duration seconds: 608
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9884

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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Mexico: The election that ended one‑party rule

Duration seconds: 636
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985w

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May 25, 2026 · not_requested

The Mexican song that captivated lovers during World War II

Duration seconds: 668
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r3b

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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Canada's worst E.coli outbreak

Duration seconds: 594
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dm

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Montenegro votes for independence

Duration seconds: 593
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bc

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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

When Krishna Menon met Stalin

Duration seconds: 653
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9883

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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Exposing King Albert II's secret child

Duration seconds: 632
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985v

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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Poland’s underground newspaper

Duration seconds: 588
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r39

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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

The Sami protest song that made Eurovision history

Duration seconds: 640
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dl

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May 14, 2026 · not_requested

When Sweden invented the reality game show

Duration seconds: 606
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98bb

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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio

Duration seconds: 568
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9882

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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

The fossil that revealed the first dinosaur feathers

Duration seconds: 659
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985t

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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Duration seconds: 658
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r38

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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Sir David Attenborough's first Zoo Quest

Duration seconds: 648
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dk

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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

Africa's worst stadium disaster

Duration seconds: 645
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98b9

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May 6, 2026 · not_requested

Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil

Duration seconds: 649
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9881

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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot

Duration seconds: 561
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985s

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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Nuns killed in Algeria

Duration seconds: 587
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r37

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

The origins of World Press Freedom Day

Duration seconds: 603
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dj

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Apr 30, 2026 · not_requested

Inside the Cuban thaw

Duration seconds: 626
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98b8

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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment

Duration seconds: 633
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9880

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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis

Duration seconds: 654
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985r

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

The world's first perfume archive

Duration seconds: 606
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r36

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Apr 24, 2026 · not_requested

The Tabasco floods

Duration seconds: 656
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dh

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Apr 23, 2026 · not_requested

The clean-up of Chernobyl

Duration seconds: 619
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98b7

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Apr 22, 2026 · not_requested

Canada's war in the woods

Duration seconds: 603
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct987z

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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

Europe’s long drought of 2011

Duration seconds: 598
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985q

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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam

Duration seconds: 651
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r35

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Apr 17, 2026 · not_requested

Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'

Duration seconds: 614
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98dg

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Apr 16, 2026 · not_requested

The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia

Duration seconds: 647
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98b6

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Apr 15, 2026 · not_requested

The assassination of Thomas Sankara

Duration seconds: 540
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct987y

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Apr 14, 2026 · not_requested

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Duration seconds: 593
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985p

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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

The creation of My Little Pony

Duration seconds: 646
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8r34

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Apr 10, 2026 · not_requested

The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity

Duration seconds: 657
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98df

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Apr 9, 2026 · not_requested

Khula Manch, the victory rally

Duration seconds: 612
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98b5

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Apr 8, 2026 · not_requested

Hitler's teeth

Duration seconds: 637
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct987x

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Apr 7, 2026 · not_requested

Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art

Duration seconds: 640
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct985n

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