Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
Udgivet: 4.6.2024 -
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Udgivet: 3.6.2024 -
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Udgivet: 31.5.2024 -
The Flint water crisis
Udgivet: 30.5.2024 -
The first Aboriginal MP
Udgivet: 29.5.2024 -
The first ever quintuplets
Udgivet: 28.5.2024 -
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
Udgivet: 27.5.2024 -
How Air Jordans were created
Udgivet: 24.5.2024 -
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Udgivet: 23.5.2024 -
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
Udgivet: 22.5.2024 -
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Udgivet: 21.5.2024 -
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
Udgivet: 20.5.2024 -
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Udgivet: 17.5.2024 -
Baghdad heavy metal
Udgivet: 16.5.2024 -
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
Udgivet: 15.5.2024 -
The creation of the state of Israel
Udgivet: 14.5.2024 -
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
Udgivet: 13.5.2024 -
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
Udgivet: 10.5.2024 -
How a billion Indians got a digital ID
Udgivet: 9.5.2024 -
The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
Udgivet: 8.5.2024
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.
