Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The Juliet letters
Udgivet: 14.2.2024 -
Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
Udgivet: 13.2.2024 -
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
Udgivet: 12.2.2024 -
The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
Udgivet: 9.2.2024 -
How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
Udgivet: 8.2.2024 -
Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
Udgivet: 7.2.2024 -
A young mother saved from death by stoning
Udgivet: 6.2.2024 -
Queen of the 'fro
Udgivet: 5.2.2024 -
First internet cafe
Udgivet: 1.2.2024 -
The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault
Udgivet: 31.1.2024 -
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
Udgivet: 30.1.2024 -
Silenced by the Vatican
Udgivet: 29.1.2024 -
Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?
Udgivet: 26.1.2024 -
The Hungarian footballer executed for love
Udgivet: 25.1.2024
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.
