Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The first modern electric car
Udgivet: 31.8.2021 -
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Udgivet: 27.8.2021 -
Syria's rebel poet
Udgivet: 26.8.2021 -
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Udgivet: 25.8.2021 -
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Udgivet: 24.8.2021 -
John Maynard Keynes
Udgivet: 23.8.2021 -
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Udgivet: 20.8.2021 -
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
Udgivet: 19.8.2021 -
India's secret freedom radio
Udgivet: 18.8.2021 -
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
Udgivet: 17.8.2021 -
The man who coined the term genocide
Udgivet: 16.8.2021 -
Inside an East German jail
Udgivet: 13.8.2021 -
East Germany's nudists
Udgivet: 12.8.2021 -
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Udgivet: 11.8.2021 -
Escaping from East Berlin
Udgivet: 10.8.2021 -
The building of the Berlin Wall
Udgivet: 9.8.2021 -
Gay activism in 1990s India
Udgivet: 6.8.2021 -
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Udgivet: 5.8.2021 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Udgivet: 4.8.2021 -
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Udgivet: 3.8.2021
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.