Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1452 Episoder
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Udgivet: 17.10.2022 -
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Udgivet: 14.10.2022 -
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Udgivet: 12.10.2022 -
Disney animators' strike
Udgivet: 11.10.2022 -
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
Udgivet: 10.10.2022 -
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
Udgivet: 7.10.2022 -
The Harder They Come
Udgivet: 6.10.2022 -
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
Udgivet: 5.10.2022 -
The release of Gilad Shalit
Udgivet: 4.10.2022 -
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Udgivet: 3.10.2022 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Udgivet: 30.9.2022 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Udgivet: 29.9.2022 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Udgivet: 28.9.2022 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Udgivet: 26.9.2022 -
Festival of Light
Udgivet: 23.9.2022 -
Iran-Iraq War begins
Udgivet: 22.9.2022 -
The first Pope to visit Africa
Udgivet: 21.9.2022 -
Ancient fossils give new insight
Udgivet: 20.9.2022 -
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Udgivet: 19.9.2022 -
The last days of Queen Victoria
Udgivet: 16.9.2022
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.