Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Udgivet: 6.3.2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Udgivet: 3.3.2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Udgivet: 2.3.2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Udgivet: 1.3.2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Udgivet: 28.2.2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Udgivet: 27.2.2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Udgivet: 24.2.2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Udgivet: 23.2.2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Udgivet: 22.2.2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Udgivet: 21.2.2023 -
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
Udgivet: 20.2.2023 -
First winter ascent of Everest
Udgivet: 17.2.2023 -
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
Udgivet: 16.2.2023 -
'I developed Pokémon'
Udgivet: 15.2.2023 -
First Danish queen for 600 years
Udgivet: 14.2.2023 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Udgivet: 13.2.2023 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Udgivet: 10.2.2023 -
The Pope and Jews
Udgivet: 9.2.2023 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Udgivet: 8.2.2023 -
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
Udgivet: 7.2.2023
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.
