Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
-
Afghanistan's poppy problem
Udgivet: 3.6.2021 -
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
Udgivet: 2.6.2021 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Udgivet: 1.6.2021 -
The war on drugs
Udgivet: 31.5.2021 -
The Tulsa Race Massacre
Udgivet: 28.5.2021 -
Rock concert for Chernobyl
Udgivet: 27.5.2021 -
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Udgivet: 26.5.2021 -
The first Arab woman pilot
Udgivet: 25.5.2021 -
The strike that shocked India
Udgivet: 24.5.2021 -
Fighting forced marriage in war
Udgivet: 21.5.2021 -
Saving the world's wetlands
Udgivet: 20.5.2021 -
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Udgivet: 18.5.2021 -
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
Udgivet: 17.5.2021 -
China's Democracy Wall
Udgivet: 14.5.2021 -
The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'
Udgivet: 13.5.2021 -
The Jewish exodus from Iraq
Udgivet: 12.5.2021 -
Legalising contraception in Ireland
Udgivet: 11.5.2021 -
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
Udgivet: 10.5.2021 -
The Great Wine Fraud
Udgivet: 6.5.2021 -
Ursula Le Guin
Udgivet: 5.5.2021
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.