Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
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1259 Episoder
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St Kilda
Udgivet: 27.8.2020 -
Occupy Wall Street
Udgivet: 26.8.2020 -
America's first woman combat pilot
Udgivet: 25.8.2020 -
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Udgivet: 24.8.2020 -
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Udgivet: 21.8.2020 -
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
Udgivet: 20.8.2020 -
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
Udgivet: 20.8.2020 -
The first modern asthma inhaler
Udgivet: 19.8.2020 -
The lost King of England
Udgivet: 18.8.2020 -
Surviving Saddam
Udgivet: 17.8.2020 -
The invention of the modern ventilator
Udgivet: 14.8.2020 -
Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
Udgivet: 13.8.2020 -
Beirut's Hotel War
Udgivet: 12.8.2020 -
Bremen’s Elephant Statue
Udgivet: 11.8.2020 -
Radar and World War Two
Udgivet: 10.8.2020 -
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Udgivet: 6.8.2020 -
The battle of Midway
Udgivet: 5.8.2020 -
The internment of Japanese Americans
Udgivet: 4.8.2020 -
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Udgivet: 3.8.2020 -
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Udgivet: 31.7.2020
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.