Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Bhagalpur blindings
Udgivet: 7.11.2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Udgivet: 6.11.2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Udgivet: 5.11.2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Udgivet: 4.11.2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Udgivet: 1.11.2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Udgivet: 31.10.2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Udgivet: 30.10.2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Udgivet: 29.10.2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Udgivet: 28.10.2019 -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Udgivet: 25.10.2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Udgivet: 24.10.2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Udgivet: 23.10.2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Udgivet: 22.10.2019 -
The legalisation of Solidarity
Udgivet: 21.10.2019 -
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Udgivet: 18.10.2019 -
Britain's worst nuclear accident
Udgivet: 17.10.2019 -
The man who fed the world
Udgivet: 16.10.2019 -
Mexico City slashes car use
Udgivet: 15.10.2019 -
Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
Udgivet: 14.10.2019 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Udgivet: 11.10.2019
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.
