Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Udgivet: 9.4.2024 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Udgivet: 8.4.2024 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Udgivet: 6.4.2024 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Udgivet: 5.4.2024 -
The Bluetooth story
Udgivet: 4.4.2024 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Udgivet: 3.4.2024 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Udgivet: 2.4.2024 -
Fifty years of Abba
Udgivet: 31.3.2024 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Udgivet: 29.3.2024 -
The founding of Nato
Udgivet: 28.3.2024 -
Britain's first beach for nudists
Udgivet: 27.3.2024 -
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Udgivet: 26.3.2024 -
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Udgivet: 25.3.2024 -
Wham! in China
Udgivet: 22.3.2024
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.