Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Udgivet: 30.10.2023 -
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
Udgivet: 27.10.2023 -
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
Udgivet: 26.10.2023 -
The 1993 MAD hijack
Udgivet: 25.10.2023 -
The 1980 Turkey coup
Udgivet: 24.10.2023 -
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Udgivet: 23.10.2023 -
Osmondmania
Udgivet: 20.10.2023 -
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Udgivet: 19.10.2023 -
Mexico’s murdered women
Udgivet: 18.10.2023 -
Rana Plaza building collapse
Udgivet: 17.10.2023 -
Cambodian peace walk
Udgivet: 16.10.2023 -
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
Udgivet: 13.10.2023 -
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
Udgivet: 12.10.2023 -
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
Udgivet: 11.10.2023 -
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
Udgivet: 10.10.2023 -
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Udgivet: 9.10.2023 -
Protectors of the Amazon
Udgivet: 6.10.2023 -
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Udgivet: 5.10.2023 -
Nigeria strikes oil
Udgivet: 4.10.2023 -
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
Udgivet: 3.10.2023
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.
