Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Bloody Sunday
Udgivet: 25.1.2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Udgivet: 24.1.2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Udgivet: 21.1.2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Udgivet: 20.1.2022 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Udgivet: 20.1.2022 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Udgivet: 17.1.2022 -
The first silicone breast implants
Udgivet: 14.1.2022 -
Costa Concordia
Udgivet: 13.1.2022 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Udgivet: 12.1.2022 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Udgivet: 11.1.2022 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Udgivet: 10.1.2022 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Udgivet: 6.1.2022 -
Marcel Proust
Udgivet: 5.1.2022 -
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Udgivet: 4.1.2022
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.