Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Adrift for 76 days
Udgivet: 29.7.2020 -
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
Udgivet: 28.7.2020 -
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Udgivet: 27.7.2020 -
The fastest vaccine ever developed
Udgivet: 24.7.2020 -
The first safe house for Afghan women
Udgivet: 23.7.2020 -
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
Udgivet: 22.7.2020 -
The Million Man March
Udgivet: 21.7.2020 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Udgivet: 20.7.2020 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Udgivet: 17.7.2020 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Udgivet: 16.7.2020 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Udgivet: 15.7.2020 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Udgivet: 14.7.2020 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Udgivet: 13.7.2020 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Udgivet: 10.7.2020 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Udgivet: 9.7.2020 -
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
Udgivet: 8.7.2020 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Udgivet: 7.7.2020 -
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
Udgivet: 6.7.2020 -
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
Udgivet: 3.7.2020 -
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Udgivet: 2.7.2020
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.
