Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Leaflet Bomber
Udgivet: 1.8.2022 -
The Tangshan Earthquake
Udgivet: 28.7.2022 -
Inventing nicotine patches
Udgivet: 27.7.2022 -
The Surkov leaks
Udgivet: 26.7.2022 -
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Udgivet: 25.7.2022 -
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
Udgivet: 22.7.2022 -
The Soviet James Bond
Udgivet: 21.7.2022 -
Who shot JR?
Udgivet: 20.7.2022 -
Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
Udgivet: 19.7.2022 -
The school for telenovela stars
Udgivet: 18.7.2022 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Udgivet: 15.7.2022 -
The man who invented the Pill
Udgivet: 14.7.2022 -
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Udgivet: 13.7.2022 -
Poland's strict abortion law
Udgivet: 12.7.2022 -
How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
Udgivet: 11.7.2022 -
The US’s first gay election candidate
Udgivet: 8.7.2022 -
How the smear test was invented
Udgivet: 7.7.2022 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Udgivet: 6.7.2022 -
Japanese university student riots
Udgivet: 5.7.2022 -
The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
Udgivet: 4.7.2022
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.