Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Paraguay adopts its second language
Udgivet: 13.3.2024 -
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
Udgivet: 12.3.2024 -
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Udgivet: 11.3.2024 -
MH370: The plane that vanished
Udgivet: 8.3.2024 -
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
Udgivet: 7.3.2024 -
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
Udgivet: 6.3.2024 -
French child evacuees of World War Two
Udgivet: 5.3.2024 -
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
Udgivet: 4.3.2024 -
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
Udgivet: 1.3.2024 -
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
Udgivet: 29.2.2024 -
The lost Czech scrolls
Udgivet: 28.2.2024 -
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Udgivet: 27.2.2024 -
Russia annexes Crimea
Udgivet: 26.2.2024 -
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Udgivet: 23.2.2024 -
Columbus Lighthouse
Udgivet: 22.2.2024 -
Trans murder in Honduras
Udgivet: 21.2.2024 -
Icelandic women's strike
Udgivet: 20.2.2024 -
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Udgivet: 19.2.2024 -
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
Udgivet: 16.2.2024 -
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
Udgivet: 15.2.2024
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.
