Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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How a Pope is chosen
Udgivet: 6.2.2023 -
The first black music station in Europe
Udgivet: 3.2.2023 -
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Udgivet: 2.2.2023 -
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Udgivet: 1.2.2023 -
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Udgivet: 31.1.2023 -
Palestine Post bombing
Udgivet: 30.1.2023 -
Invention of the MP3
Udgivet: 27.1.2023 -
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Udgivet: 26.1.2023 -
Smolensk air disaster
Udgivet: 25.1.2023 -
Japanese death row guard
Udgivet: 24.1.2023 -
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Udgivet: 23.1.2023 -
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
Udgivet: 20.1.2023 -
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Udgivet: 19.1.2023 -
Kosovo’s house schools
Udgivet: 18.1.2023 -
Europe's horse meat scandal
Udgivet: 17.1.2023 -
Miracle on the Hudson
Udgivet: 16.1.2023 -
World’s first tidal power station
Udgivet: 13.1.2023 -
Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute
Udgivet: 12.1.2023 -
Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line
Udgivet: 11.1.2023 -
Dutch North Sea flood
Udgivet: 10.1.2023
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.
