Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Mongolian revolution
Udgivet: 12.12.2022 -
Creating Teletubbies
Udgivet: 9.12.2022 -
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
Udgivet: 8.12.2022 -
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Udgivet: 7.12.2022 -
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Udgivet: 6.12.2022 -
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Udgivet: 5.12.2022 -
Miss World protest
Udgivet: 2.12.2022 -
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Udgivet: 1.12.2022 -
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
Udgivet: 30.11.2022 -
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Udgivet: 29.11.2022 -
Mombasa terror attacks
Udgivet: 28.11.2022 -
How cat's eyes were invented
Udgivet: 25.11.2022 -
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
Udgivet: 24.11.2022 -
When Sweden’s roads went right
Udgivet: 23.11.2022
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.
