Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The book that changed the way we eat
Udgivet: 25.5.2020 -
Britain's World War Two crime wave
Udgivet: 22.5.2020 -
Explaining autism
Udgivet: 21.5.2020 -
The first 3D printer
Udgivet: 20.5.2020 -
Kowloon Walled City
Udgivet: 19.5.2020 -
The Miami riots
Udgivet: 18.5.2020 -
Sweden's fishy submarine scare
Udgivet: 15.5.2020 -
Confessions of a Prince
Udgivet: 14.5.2020 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Udgivet: 13.5.2020 -
The first 24-hour children's helpline
Udgivet: 12.5.2020 -
The liberation of the Channel Islands
Udgivet: 11.5.2020 -
VE Day
Udgivet: 8.5.2020 -
The Soviet occupation of Berlin
Udgivet: 7.5.2020 -
The battle for Berlin
Udgivet: 6.5.2020 -
The death of Hitler
Udgivet: 5.5.2020 -
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
Udgivet: 4.5.2020 -
Hiroshima's trees of hope
Udgivet: 1.5.2020 -
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
Udgivet: 30.4.2020 -
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
Udgivet: 29.4.2020 -
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
Udgivet: 28.4.2020
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.