Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
Udgivet: 2.8.2021 -
The Tsunami and Fukushima
Udgivet: 30.7.2021 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Udgivet: 29.7.2021 -
The soldier who never surrendered
Udgivet: 28.7.2021 -
The birth of Karaoke
Udgivet: 27.7.2021 -
Japan's Bullet Train
Udgivet: 26.7.2021 -
When war came to Darfur
Udgivet: 22.7.2021 -
Surviving Norway's day of terror
Udgivet: 21.7.2021 -
The Battle of Gondar
Udgivet: 20.7.2021 -
Domestic violence in Brazil
Udgivet: 19.7.2021 -
England's summer of riots
Udgivet: 16.7.2021 -
When the Taliban took Kabul
Udgivet: 15.7.2021 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Udgivet: 14.7.2021 -
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Udgivet: 13.7.2021
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.