Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The assassination of King Faisal
Udgivet: 19.12.2023 -
Tsunami devastates Samoa
Udgivet: 18.12.2023 -
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Udgivet: 15.12.2023 -
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Udgivet: 14.12.2023 -
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Udgivet: 13.12.2023 -
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Udgivet: 12.12.2023 -
Murder of the Romanovs
Udgivet: 11.12.2023 -
The release of DOOM
Udgivet: 8.12.2023 -
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
Udgivet: 7.12.2023 -
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Udgivet: 6.12.2023 -
La Haine: The film that shocked France
Udgivet: 4.12.2023 -
World's first solar-heated home
Udgivet: 1.12.2023 -
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Udgivet: 30.11.2023 -
The bird that defied extinction
Udgivet: 28.11.2023 -
Cabbage Patch Kids
Udgivet: 27.11.2023 -
The Mumbai attacks
Udgivet: 24.11.2023 -
The Paris heatwave
Udgivet: 23.11.2023 -
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
Udgivet: 22.11.2023 -
The invention of bubble tea
Udgivet: 21.11.2023 -
The independence of Zambia
Udgivet: 20.11.2023
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.
