Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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East Germany's punks
Udgivet: 3.1.2020 -
Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain
Udgivet: 2.1.2020 -
The book that predicted an end to civilisation
Udgivet: 1.1.2020 -
Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war
Udgivet: 31.12.2019 -
The Chippendales
Udgivet: 30.12.2019 -
Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign
Udgivet: 27.12.2019 -
Cirque du Soleil
Udgivet: 26.12.2019 -
The secret history of Monopoly
Udgivet: 25.12.2019 -
The invasion of Afghanistan
Udgivet: 24.12.2019 -
Fighting cancer
Udgivet: 23.12.2019 -
The creation of Abuja
Udgivet: 20.12.2019 -
Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder
Udgivet: 19.12.2019 -
The Romanian revolution
Udgivet: 18.12.2019 -
Women and the Sabarimala temple
Udgivet: 17.12.2019 -
Black GIs during World War Two
Udgivet: 16.12.2019 -
The attack on India's parliament
Udgivet: 13.12.2019 -
The killing of Amadou Diallo
Udgivet: 12.12.2019 -
The IRA siege at Balcombe Street
Udgivet: 10.12.2019 -
The battle of the Louvre pyramid
Udgivet: 9.12.2019 -
The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro
Udgivet: 6.12.2019
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.
