Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1493 Episoder
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Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Udgivet: 3.8.2025 -
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Udgivet: 1.8.2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Udgivet: 31.7.2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Udgivet: 30.7.2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Udgivet: 29.7.2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Udgivet: 28.7.2025 -
A Chorus Line
Udgivet: 25.7.2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Udgivet: 24.7.2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Udgivet: 23.7.2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Udgivet: 22.7.2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Udgivet: 21.7.2025 -
Italo disco
Udgivet: 18.7.2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Udgivet: 17.7.2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Udgivet: 16.7.2025 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Udgivet: 15.7.2025 -
The start of Voice of America
Udgivet: 14.7.2025 -
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Udgivet: 11.7.2025 -
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Udgivet: 10.7.2025 -
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
Udgivet: 9.7.2025 -
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Udgivet: 8.7.2025
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 the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.
