Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Buddhists and death row
Udgivet: 5.1.2021 -
The oldest song in the world
Udgivet: 4.1.2021 -
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas
Udgivet: 1.1.2021 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Udgivet: 31.12.2020 -
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
Udgivet: 30.12.2020 -
The building of the Aswan Dam
Udgivet: 29.12.2020 -
UNESCO and race and tolerance
Udgivet: 28.12.2020 -
It's a Wonderful Life
Udgivet: 25.12.2020 -
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Udgivet: 24.12.2020 -
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
Udgivet: 23.12.2020 -
The Sound of Music
Udgivet: 22.12.2020 -
The Great Dictator
Udgivet: 21.12.2020 -
The GDR's Namibian children
Udgivet: 18.12.2020 -
The blockade of Gibraltar
Udgivet: 17.12.2020 -
British reality TV is born
Udgivet: 16.12.2020 -
The birth of Bangladesh
Udgivet: 15.12.2020 -
White Christmas
Udgivet: 14.12.2020 -
The return of the beaver
Udgivet: 11.12.2020 -
Neanderthal cave mystery
Udgivet: 10.12.2020 -
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Udgivet: 9.12.2020
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 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.