Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
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1259 Episoder
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Udgivet: 19.11.2020 -
America's WW2 refugee camp
Udgivet: 18.11.2020 -
The world's first woman premier
Udgivet: 17.11.2020 -
Captured by Somali pirates
Udgivet: 16.11.2020 -
The 'good enough' mother
Udgivet: 13.11.2020 -
When Pluto lost its planet status
Udgivet: 12.11.2020 -
World War One in Africa
Udgivet: 11.11.2020 -
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Udgivet: 10.11.2020 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Udgivet: 9.11.2020 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Udgivet: 6.11.2020 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Udgivet: 5.11.2020 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Udgivet: 4.11.2020 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Udgivet: 3.11.2020 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Udgivet: 2.11.2020 -
With the president on 9/11
Udgivet: 30.10.2020 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Udgivet: 29.10.2020 -
The Watergate scandal
Udgivet: 28.10.2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Udgivet: 27.10.2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Udgivet: 26.10.2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Udgivet: 23.10.2020
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.