Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Udgivet: 28.9.2021 -
The rise of the Taliban
Udgivet: 27.9.2021 -
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
Udgivet: 24.9.2021 -
James Bond on screen
Udgivet: 23.9.2021 -
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Udgivet: 22.9.2021 -
Mexico's miracle water
Udgivet: 21.9.2021 -
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
Udgivet: 20.9.2021 -
The Peter Principle
Udgivet: 17.9.2021 -
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
Udgivet: 16.9.2021 -
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Udgivet: 15.9.2021 -
The lost king of France
Udgivet: 14.9.2021 -
The Attica prison rebellion
Udgivet: 13.9.2021 -
9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
Udgivet: 10.9.2021 -
America attacks Afghanistan
Udgivet: 9.9.2021 -
With the president on 9/11
Udgivet: 8.9.2021 -
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
Udgivet: 7.9.2021 -
The warnings before 9/11
Udgivet: 6.9.2021 -
North Korea's founding father
Udgivet: 3.9.2021 -
The businessman who defied the Mafia
Udgivet: 2.9.2021 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon
Udgivet: 1.9.2021
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.