Witness History
En podcast af BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Siege of Yarmouk
Udgivet: 19.11.2024 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Udgivet: 18.11.2024 -
German naturists
Udgivet: 15.11.2024 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Udgivet: 14.11.2024 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Udgivet: 13.11.2024 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Udgivet: 12.11.2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Udgivet: 11.11.2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Udgivet: 8.11.2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Udgivet: 7.11.2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Udgivet: 6.11.2024 -
In exile from Iran
Udgivet: 5.11.2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Udgivet: 4.11.2024 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Udgivet: 1.11.2024 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Udgivet: 31.10.2024 -
The Ken Burns Effect
Udgivet: 30.10.2024 -
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
Udgivet: 29.10.2024 -
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Udgivet: 28.10.2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Udgivet: 25.10.2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Udgivet: 24.10.2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Udgivet: 23.10.2024
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.
