Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Iranian Revolution and women
Udgivet: 25.10.2022 -
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Udgivet: 24.10.2022 -
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Udgivet: 21.10.2022 -
Cuba's boxing ban
Udgivet: 20.10.2022 -
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Udgivet: 19.10.2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Udgivet: 18.10.2022 -
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
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.
