Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Udgivet: 30.7.2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Udgivet: 29.7.2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Udgivet: 26.7.2024 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Udgivet: 25.7.2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Udgivet: 24.7.2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Udgivet: 23.7.2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Udgivet: 22.7.2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Udgivet: 19.7.2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Udgivet: 18.7.2024 -
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Udgivet: 17.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Udgivet: 16.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Udgivet: 15.7.2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Udgivet: 12.7.2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Udgivet: 11.7.2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Udgivet: 10.7.2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Udgivet: 9.7.2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Udgivet: 8.7.2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Udgivet: 5.7.2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Udgivet: 4.7.2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Udgivet: 3.7.2024
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.
