Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Udgivet: 14.3.2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Udgivet: 13.3.2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Udgivet: 12.3.2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Udgivet: 11.3.2025 -
The invention of GPS
Udgivet: 10.3.2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Udgivet: 7.3.2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Udgivet: 6.3.2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Udgivet: 5.3.2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Udgivet: 4.3.2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Udgivet: 3.3.2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Udgivet: 28.2.2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Udgivet: 27.2.2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Udgivet: 26.2.2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Udgivet: 25.2.2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Udgivet: 24.2.2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Udgivet: 21.2.2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Udgivet: 20.2.2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Udgivet: 19.2.2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Udgivet: 18.2.2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Udgivet: 17.2.2025
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.