Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
Udgivet: 7.8.2023 -
Dinosaur in court
Udgivet: 4.8.2023 -
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
Udgivet: 3.8.2023 -
Birth of a new language
Udgivet: 2.8.2023 -
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
Udgivet: 1.8.2023 -
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Udgivet: 31.7.2023 -
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
Udgivet: 28.7.2023 -
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
Udgivet: 27.7.2023 -
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Udgivet: 26.7.2023 -
Brain: The first personal computer virus
Udgivet: 25.7.2023 -
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
Udgivet: 24.7.2023 -
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
Udgivet: 21.7.2023 -
The birth of Barbie
Udgivet: 20.7.2023 -
Japan surrenders in China
Udgivet: 19.7.2023 -
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Udgivet: 18.7.2023 -
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Udgivet: 17.7.2023 -
Creating the first emoji
Udgivet: 14.7.2023 -
When disposable nappies were invented
Udgivet: 13.7.2023 -
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Udgivet: 11.7.2023 -
Invention of the ballpoint pen
Udgivet: 10.7.2023
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.
