Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The IRA hunger strikes
Udgivet: 4.5.2021 -
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
Udgivet: 3.5.2021 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Udgivet: 30.4.2021 -
The battle of Tora Bora
Udgivet: 29.4.2021 -
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
Udgivet: 28.4.2021 -
Meeting Osama bin Laden
Udgivet: 27.4.2021 -
The siege of Mecca
Udgivet: 26.4.2021 -
The first space shuttle mission
Udgivet: 23.4.2021 -
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Udgivet: 22.4.2021 -
The Raymond Davis Incident
Udgivet: 21.4.2021 -
The return of Blue Lake
Udgivet: 20.4.2021 -
The Eichmann trial
Udgivet: 19.4.2021 -
China's 'Kingdom of women'
Udgivet: 16.4.2021 -
The vultures saved from extinction
Udgivet: 15.4.2021 -
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Udgivet: 14.4.2021 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Udgivet: 13.4.2021 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Udgivet: 12.4.2021 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Udgivet: 9.4.2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Udgivet: 8.4.2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Udgivet: 7.4.2021
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.
