Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
Udgivet: 17.11.2023 -
The Bolivian Water War
Udgivet: 16.11.2023 -
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Udgivet: 15.11.2023 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
Udgivet: 14.11.2023 -
The invention of the EpiPen
Udgivet: 13.11.2023 -
The hippo and the tortoise
Udgivet: 10.11.2023 -
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
Udgivet: 9.11.2023 -
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Udgivet: 8.11.2023 -
Debbie McGee in Iran
Udgivet: 7.11.2023 -
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Udgivet: 6.11.2023 -
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Udgivet: 3.11.2023 -
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Udgivet: 2.11.2023 -
Inventing the black box
Udgivet: 1.11.2023 -
The discovery of the HIV virus
Udgivet: 31.10.2023
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.
