Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Drugs in the Vietnam War
Udgivet: 4.2.2021 -
The Burma uprising of 1988
Udgivet: 3.2.2021 -
The Moscow State Circus
Udgivet: 2.2.2021 -
The first Eurostar from England to France
Udgivet: 1.2.2021 -
The anthem of the Arab Spring
Udgivet: 29.1.2021 -
Libya's Arab uprising
Udgivet: 28.1.2021 -
Yemen's 2011 uprising
Udgivet: 27.1.2021 -
Syria in the Arab Spring
Udgivet: 26.1.2021 -
Egypt's Facebook Girl
Udgivet: 25.1.2021 -
Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs
Udgivet: 22.1.2021 -
Kenya's pioneering publisher
Udgivet: 21.1.2021 -
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
Udgivet: 20.1.2021 -
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Udgivet: 19.1.2021 -
Landing on Titan
Udgivet: 14.1.2021 -
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Udgivet: 13.1.2021 -
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
Udgivet: 12.1.2021 -
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Udgivet: 11.1.2021 -
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Udgivet: 8.1.2021 -
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
Udgivet: 7.1.2021 -
The 'strike' in space
Udgivet: 6.1.2021
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.