Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchParaguay’s ‘disappeared’ and the history of the Channel Tunnel
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
This week we hear the story of Rogelio Goiburu,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Thirty years since the first free elections in South Africa
It’s been thirty years since the first fully democratic elections in South Africa, which saw the African National Congress take power in 1994.
But two…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ebola outbreak and the Friendship Train returns
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It’s 10 years since the world’s deadliest outbre…
1 year, 8 months ago
The history of art heists
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It's 30 years since Edvard Munch’s painting, The…
1 year, 9 months ago
Swedish History
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
It has been 50 years since Abba won the 1974 Eur…
1 year, 9 months ago
Seventy-five years of Nato and the Heimlich Manoeuvre
It's 75 years since the founding of Nato. In 1949, a group of 12 countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to block the expansion of th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Chinese history
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
To mark 50 years since the discovery of the Terr…
1 year, 9 months ago
Finding early vertebrate’s footprints and the Deaflympic badminton champion
First, we go back to 1992, when off the coast of Ireland, a Swiss geology student accidentally discovered the longest set of footprints made by the f…
1 year, 9 months ago
Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
We first hear about Uruguay’s tale of David v G…
1 year, 10 months ago
Whisky wars and the Lord of Sipan
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We first hear about a bloodless war between Den…
1 year, 10 months ago