Witness History - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is one of the best podcasts out there. I’ve learned about so many historical events I had no idea happened! Covers topics from all around the world.

My only recommendation would be to have longer content for each historical event, I always want to hear the full interview of the person once it starts! they could cover just one topic and episode and I would love it.

I’ve recommended this podcast to teachers bc I think it would be so engaging for students!

This is an outstanding series, using eyewitnesses to historical events to tell the story. This gives an immediacy to the stories and makes for compelling history. Sometimes the eyewitnesses are famous figures, but as often as not they are simply ordinary folk swept up in the history that is part of all of us. Kudos to the BBC for yet another original contribution.

I like interesting, true accounts of history and science. These are great to listen to when you’re busy doing physical chores and want something to occupy your mind. They’re not so long that you get disinterested. Just enough info that you get the gist of what happened…your not going to remember all the details anyway. These are just enough.

These are great true life stories, told factually and engagingly by people who had their direct perspective on what we might otherwise read in history books. Well done BBC