Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPussy Riot and other Russian rebels
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.
You'll hear the story of how a protest led by…
3 years, 2 months ago
Food
Stories about the history of food, including the creation of ciabatta bread by a rally driver in Italy in 1982 and the Maltese bakers' strike in 1977…
3 years, 2 months ago
90 years of the BBC World Service
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.
Sir Trevor McDonald reflects on the BBC's fir…
3 years, 3 months ago
District Six and daredevils
The forced removal of families who weren't white from District Six, in Cape Town, by the South African apartheid regime and the man who jumped from s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Referendums and Teletubbies
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.
We go to Quebec in 1995 when voters went to t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Contested islands and Miss World protests
Max Pearson presents a compilation of this week's Witness History programmes from the BBC World Service.
We hear from a man who was aged six when he w…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anwar Ibrahim and road safety inventions
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.
Malaysia's Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, recou…
3 years, 4 months ago
Arabian Peninsula
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes, which focus on the Arabian Peninsula to mark the star…
3 years, 4 months ago
Racist raids, protests and a political assassination
A collection of Witness History episodes, presented by Max Pearson. We look at how racism led to raids in the 1970s and protests in the 1980s in New …
3 years, 4 months ago
The best Championship Manager player ever
A collection of Witness History episodes, looking at how young men in Africa have been exploited through football and and sex-selective abortion in I…
3 years, 4 months ago