Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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First women’s minister in Iran
Udgivet: 22.11.2022 -
The invention of the seat belt
Udgivet: 21.11.2022 -
Qatar's first female published author
Udgivet: 18.11.2022 -
First Emirati female teacher
Udgivet: 17.11.2022 -
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Udgivet: 16.11.2022 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Udgivet: 15.11.2022 -
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Udgivet: 14.11.2022 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Udgivet: 11.11.2022 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Udgivet: 10.11.2022 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Udgivet: 9.11.2022 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Udgivet: 8.11.2022 -
Polynesian Panthers
Udgivet: 7.11.2022 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Udgivet: 4.11.2022 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Udgivet: 3.11.2022 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Udgivet: 2.11.2022 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Udgivet: 1.11.2022 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Udgivet: 31.10.2022 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Udgivet: 28.10.2022 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Udgivet: 27.10.2022 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Udgivet: 26.10.2022
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.
