Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Paris is Burning
Udgivet: 15.3.2021 -
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Udgivet: 11.3.2021 -
Jane: The underground abortion network
Udgivet: 10.3.2021 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Udgivet: 9.3.2021 -
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Udgivet: 8.3.2021 -
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
Udgivet: 5.3.2021 -
The Sharpeville massacre
Udgivet: 4.3.2021 -
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
Udgivet: 3.3.2021 -
Refugee Island
Udgivet: 2.3.2021 -
The world's deepest dive 11km down
Udgivet: 1.3.2021 -
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
Udgivet: 25.2.2021 -
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Udgivet: 24.2.2021 -
Ireland's bank bailout
Udgivet: 23.2.2021 -
Acid rain
Udgivet: 22.2.2021 -
Mary Wilson
Udgivet: 19.2.2021 -
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
Udgivet: 18.2.2021 -
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Udgivet: 17.2.2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
Udgivet: 16.2.2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
Udgivet: 15.2.2021 -
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
Udgivet: 12.2.2021
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.
