Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
Udgivet: 27.4.2022 -
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Udgivet: 26.4.2022 -
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Udgivet: 25.4.2022 -
The battle for Kinder Scout
Udgivet: 22.4.2022 -
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Udgivet: 21.4.2022 -
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Udgivet: 20.4.2022 -
Women's rights in Basra
Udgivet: 19.4.2022 -
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
Udgivet: 18.4.2022 -
The World Wide Web
Udgivet: 15.4.2022 -
How Tinder changed the dating game
Udgivet: 14.4.2022 -
Greece's Great Famine
Udgivet: 13.4.2022 -
The largest war crimes trial in history
Udgivet: 12.4.2022 -
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
Udgivet: 11.4.2022 -
The Great American Grain Robbery
Udgivet: 8.4.2022 -
The handshake in Space
Udgivet: 7.4.2022 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Udgivet: 6.4.2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Udgivet: 5.4.2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Udgivet: 1.4.2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Udgivet: 31.3.2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Udgivet: 30.3.2022
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.