Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Udgivet: 4.9.2023 -
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Udgivet: 1.9.2023 -
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Udgivet: 31.8.2023 -
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
Udgivet: 30.8.2023 -
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
Udgivet: 29.8.2023 -
The Bristol bus boycott
Udgivet: 28.8.2023 -
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
Udgivet: 25.8.2023 -
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
Udgivet: 24.8.2023 -
The first Rose of Tralee
Udgivet: 23.8.2023 -
How electricity came to rural Ireland
Udgivet: 22.8.2023 -
Easter Rising in Ireland
Udgivet: 21.8.2023 -
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
Udgivet: 18.8.2023 -
Judy Garland: The final shows
Udgivet: 17.8.2023 -
Returning Benin Bronzes
Udgivet: 16.8.2023 -
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
Udgivet: 15.8.2023 -
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
Udgivet: 14.8.2023 -
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
Udgivet: 11.8.2023 -
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Udgivet: 10.8.2023 -
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
Udgivet: 9.8.2023 -
The Great Train Robbery
Udgivet: 8.8.2023
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.
