Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Udgivet: 11.4.2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Udgivet: 10.4.2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Udgivet: 9.4.2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Udgivet: 8.4.2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Udgivet: 7.4.2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Udgivet: 4.4.2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Udgivet: 3.4.2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Udgivet: 2.4.2025 -
The invention of superglue
Udgivet: 1.4.2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Udgivet: 31.3.2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Udgivet: 28.3.2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Udgivet: 27.3.2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Udgivet: 26.3.2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Udgivet: 25.3.2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Udgivet: 24.3.2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Udgivet: 21.3.2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Udgivet: 20.3.2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Udgivet: 19.3.2025 -
First spacewalk
Udgivet: 18.3.2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Udgivet: 17.3.2025
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.
