Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
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1259 Episoder
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Landing on Titan
Udgivet: 14.1.2021 -
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Udgivet: 13.1.2021 -
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
Udgivet: 12.1.2021 -
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Udgivet: 11.1.2021 -
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Udgivet: 8.1.2021 -
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
Udgivet: 7.1.2021 -
The 'strike' in space
Udgivet: 6.1.2021 -
Buddhists and death row
Udgivet: 5.1.2021 -
The oldest song in the world
Udgivet: 4.1.2021 -
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas
Udgivet: 1.1.2021 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Udgivet: 31.12.2020 -
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
Udgivet: 30.12.2020 -
The building of the Aswan Dam
Udgivet: 29.12.2020 -
UNESCO and race and tolerance
Udgivet: 28.12.2020 -
It's a Wonderful Life
Udgivet: 25.12.2020 -
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Udgivet: 24.12.2020 -
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
Udgivet: 23.12.2020 -
The Sound of Music
Udgivet: 22.12.2020 -
The Great Dictator
Udgivet: 21.12.2020 -
The GDR's Namibian children
Udgivet: 18.12.2020
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.