Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The world's first environment conference
Udgivet: 26.10.2021 -
Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'
Udgivet: 25.10.2021 -
Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
Udgivet: 22.10.2021 -
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Udgivet: 21.10.2021 -
Polish refugees in Africa
Udgivet: 20.10.2021 -
The mysterious death of Samora Machel
Udgivet: 19.10.2021 -
The first transgender minister in the Church of England
Udgivet: 18.10.2021 -
The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist
Udgivet: 15.10.2021 -
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Udgivet: 14.10.2021 -
The story of 'Baby Jessica'
Udgivet: 13.10.2021 -
Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally
Udgivet: 12.10.2021 -
Winning the Arabic Booker prize
Udgivet: 11.10.2021 -
Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer
Udgivet: 8.10.2021 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Udgivet: 7.10.2021 -
A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
Udgivet: 6.10.2021 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Udgivet: 5.10.2021 -
London's first black policeman
Udgivet: 4.10.2021 -
The Tanker War
Udgivet: 1.10.2021 -
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
Udgivet: 30.9.2021 -
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
Udgivet: 29.9.2021
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 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.
