Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Udgivet: 7.5.2024 -
Friends: The making of a smash hit
Udgivet: 6.5.2024 -
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Udgivet: 3.5.2024 -
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
Udgivet: 2.5.2024 -
How to win friends and influence people
Udgivet: 1.5.2024 -
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Udgivet: 30.4.2024 -
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Udgivet: 29.4.2024 -
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Udgivet: 26.4.2024 -
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Udgivet: 25.4.2024 -
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Udgivet: 24.4.2024 -
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
Udgivet: 23.4.2024 -
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Udgivet: 22.4.2024 -
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Udgivet: 19.4.2024 -
Deadly Everest avalanche
Udgivet: 18.4.2024 -
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
Udgivet: 17.4.2024 -
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Udgivet: 16.4.2024 -
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Udgivet: 15.4.2024 -
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Udgivet: 12.4.2024 -
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
Udgivet: 11.4.2024 -
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
Udgivet: 10.4.2024
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.
