Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Udgivet: 10.11.2020 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Udgivet: 9.11.2020 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Udgivet: 6.11.2020 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Udgivet: 5.11.2020 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Udgivet: 4.11.2020 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Udgivet: 3.11.2020 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Udgivet: 2.11.2020 -
With the president on 9/11
Udgivet: 30.10.2020 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Udgivet: 29.10.2020 -
The Watergate scandal
Udgivet: 28.10.2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Udgivet: 27.10.2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Udgivet: 26.10.2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Udgivet: 23.10.2020 -
The missing victims of apartheid
Udgivet: 22.10.2020 -
The Cutter Incident
Udgivet: 21.10.2020 -
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Udgivet: 20.10.2020 -
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Udgivet: 19.10.2020 -
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Udgivet: 16.10.2020 -
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
Udgivet: 15.10.2020 -
The last of the Kazakh herders
Udgivet: 14.10.2020
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.
