Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
Udgivet: 13.10.2020 -
The launch of CNN
Udgivet: 12.10.2020 -
The Battle of Lewisham
Udgivet: 9.10.2020 -
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Udgivet: 8.10.2020 -
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Udgivet: 7.10.2020 -
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Udgivet: 6.10.2020 -
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
Udgivet: 5.10.2020 -
The house by the lake
Udgivet: 2.10.2020 -
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Udgivet: 1.10.2020 -
The founding of Google
Udgivet: 30.9.2020 -
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
Udgivet: 29.9.2020 -
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Udgivet: 28.9.2020 -
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
Udgivet: 25.9.2020 -
Blackwater killed my son
Udgivet: 24.9.2020
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.
