Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
Udgivet: 16.1.2024 -
The hunger-striking Bolivian president
Udgivet: 15.1.2024 -
Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
Udgivet: 12.1.2024 -
The first World Laughter Day
Udgivet: 11.1.2024 -
Russian ballerina defects to the west
Udgivet: 10.1.2024 -
The mystery of France's lost king
Udgivet: 9.1.2024 -
The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
Udgivet: 8.1.2024 -
What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
Udgivet: 5.1.2024 -
The Hindenburg airship disaster
Udgivet: 4.1.2024 -
The invention of the wingsuit
Udgivet: 3.1.2024 -
Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
Udgivet: 2.1.2024 -
Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
Udgivet: 1.1.2024 -
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
Udgivet: 29.12.2023 -
The disputed history of pad Thai
Udgivet: 28.12.2023 -
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
Udgivet: 27.12.2023 -
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
Udgivet: 26.12.2023 -
Inventing Nutella
Udgivet: 25.12.2023 -
'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
Udgivet: 22.12.2023 -
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
Udgivet: 21.12.2023 -
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
Udgivet: 20.12.2023
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.
