Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Udgivet: 17.1.2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Udgivet: 16.1.2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Udgivet: 15.1.2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Udgivet: 14.1.2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Udgivet: 13.1.2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Udgivet: 10.1.2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Udgivet: 9.1.2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Udgivet: 8.1.2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Udgivet: 7.1.2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Udgivet: 2.1.2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Udgivet: 1.1.2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Udgivet: 31.12.2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Udgivet: 30.12.2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Udgivet: 27.12.2024 -
'Kimchi war'
Udgivet: 26.12.2024 -
Chef to five presidents
Udgivet: 25.12.2024 -
When instant noodles came to India
Udgivet: 24.12.2024 -
'I created MasterChef'
Udgivet: 23.12.2024 -
Australian republic referendum
Udgivet: 20.12.2024 -
Poland's bleak Christmas
Udgivet: 19.12.2024
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.
