Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Udgivet: 2.7.2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Udgivet: 1.7.2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Udgivet: 29.6.2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Udgivet: 27.6.2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Udgivet: 26.6.2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Udgivet: 25.6.2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Udgivet: 24.6.2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Udgivet: 21.6.2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Udgivet: 20.6.2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Udgivet: 19.6.2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Udgivet: 18.6.2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Udgivet: 17.6.2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Udgivet: 14.6.2024 -
Kielland disaster
Udgivet: 13.6.2024
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.
