Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The death of Trayvon Martin
Udgivet: 24.2.2022 -
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
Udgivet: 23.2.2022 -
Nixon in China
Udgivet: 22.2.2022 -
The first sex worker strike
Udgivet: 21.2.2022 -
The world's first civil union
Udgivet: 18.2.2022 -
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
Udgivet: 17.2.2022 -
The Berlin Patient
Udgivet: 16.2.2022 -
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
Udgivet: 15.2.2022 -
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
Udgivet: 14.2.2022 -
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
Udgivet: 11.2.2022 -
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Udgivet: 10.2.2022 -
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
Udgivet: 9.2.2022 -
The invention of Google Maps
Udgivet: 8.2.2022 -
The demise of the Soviet Union
Udgivet: 7.2.2022 -
The first Emirati female teacher
Udgivet: 3.2.2022 -
The day the world looked up
Udgivet: 2.2.2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Udgivet: 1.2.2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Udgivet: 28.1.2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Udgivet: 27.1.2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Udgivet: 26.1.2022
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.