Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Plastics in oceans
Udgivet: 9.1.2023 -
Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest
Udgivet: 6.1.2023 -
The man Pinochet wanted dead
Udgivet: 5.1.2023 -
When America banned silicone breast implants
Udgivet: 4.1.2023 -
Arctic African
Udgivet: 3.1.2023 -
One team in Tallinn
Udgivet: 2.1.2023 -
The birth of the Slow Food Movement
Udgivet: 30.12.2022 -
Inventing instant noodles
Udgivet: 29.12.2022 -
Malta's bread strike
Udgivet: 28.12.2022 -
Inventing Chicken Manchurian
Udgivet: 27.12.2022 -
Creating ciabatta bread
Udgivet: 26.12.2022 -
Chile mine rescue
Udgivet: 23.12.2022 -
Grozny siege
Udgivet: 22.12.2022 -
Colombia's 'false positives' killings
Udgivet: 21.12.2022 -
The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Udgivet: 20.12.2022 -
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Udgivet: 19.12.2022 -
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Udgivet: 16.12.2022 -
Soviet fashionista
Udgivet: 15.12.2022 -
Returning to District Six
Udgivet: 14.12.2022 -
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Udgivet: 13.12.2022
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.