Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Udgivet: 16.6.2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Udgivet: 13.6.2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Udgivet: 12.6.2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Udgivet: 11.6.2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Udgivet: 10.6.2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Udgivet: 9.6.2025 -
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Udgivet: 6.6.2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Udgivet: 5.6.2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Udgivet: 4.6.2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Udgivet: 3.6.2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Udgivet: 2.6.2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Udgivet: 30.5.2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Udgivet: 29.5.2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Udgivet: 28.5.2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Udgivet: 27.5.2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Udgivet: 26.5.2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Udgivet: 23.5.2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Udgivet: 22.5.2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Udgivet: 21.5.2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Udgivet: 20.5.2025
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.
