Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
-
The secret history of Monopoly
Udgivet: 31.12.2021 -
Lego
Udgivet: 30.12.2021 -
Tetris
Udgivet: 29.12.2021 -
Grand Theft Auto
Udgivet: 29.12.2021 -
Pong and the birth of computer games
Udgivet: 27.12.2021 -
The home of Santa Claus
Udgivet: 24.12.2021 -
Bahrain's 2011 protests
Udgivet: 23.12.2021 -
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Udgivet: 22.12.2021 -
Rudolf Nureyev defects
Udgivet: 21.12.2021 -
Tanzania's first elected albino MP
Udgivet: 20.12.2021 -
Bangladesh wins independence
Udgivet: 17.12.2021 -
On the front line in Bangladesh
Udgivet: 16.12.2021 -
Rape as a weapon in Bangladesh
Udgivet: 15.12.2021 -
The Bengali language movement
Udgivet: 13.12.2021 -
The explosion heard by millions
Udgivet: 10.12.2021 -
The Aldi kidnap
Udgivet: 9.12.2021 -
Spies or plane-spotters?
Udgivet: 8.12.2021 -
The V2 rocket
Udgivet: 7.12.2021 -
Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
Udgivet: 6.12.2021 -
Derek Jarman
Udgivet: 3.12.2021
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.