Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
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1259 Episoder
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The vultures saved from extinction
Udgivet: 15.4.2021 -
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Udgivet: 14.4.2021 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Udgivet: 13.4.2021 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Udgivet: 12.4.2021 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Udgivet: 9.4.2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Udgivet: 8.4.2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Udgivet: 7.4.2021 -
Mexico's female serial killer
Udgivet: 6.4.2021 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Udgivet: 5.4.2021 -
Black Jesus
Udgivet: 2.4.2021 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Udgivet: 1.4.2021 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Udgivet: 31.3.2021 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Udgivet: 30.3.2021 -
Anorexia nervosa
Udgivet: 29.3.2021 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Udgivet: 25.3.2021 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Udgivet: 24.3.2021 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Udgivet: 23.3.2021 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Udgivet: 22.3.2021 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Udgivet: 19.3.2021 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Udgivet: 18.3.2021
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.