Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
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
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.
