Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Udgivet: 24.9.2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Udgivet: 23.9.2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Udgivet: 20.9.2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Udgivet: 19.9.2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Udgivet: 18.9.2024 -
Camouflaging Leningrad
Udgivet: 17.9.2024 -
The invention of the CT scanner
Udgivet: 16.9.2024 -
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Udgivet: 13.9.2024 -
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Udgivet: 12.9.2024 -
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Udgivet: 11.9.2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Udgivet: 10.9.2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Udgivet: 9.9.2024 -
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
Udgivet: 6.9.2024 -
Apollo 13
Udgivet: 5.9.2024 -
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Udgivet: 4.9.2024 -
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
Udgivet: 3.9.2024 -
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Udgivet: 2.9.2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Udgivet: 30.8.2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Udgivet: 29.8.2024 -
Waris Dirie
Udgivet: 28.8.2024
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.
