Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1503 Avsnitt
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Publicerades: 2025-08-15 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Publicerades: 2025-08-14 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Publicerades: 2025-08-13 -
Borobudur Temple
Publicerades: 2025-08-12 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Publicerades: 2025-08-11 -
1965 Singaporean independence
Publicerades: 2025-08-08 -
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Publicerades: 2025-08-07 -
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
Publicerades: 2025-08-06 -
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Publicerades: 2025-08-05 -
Nagasaki bomb
Publicerades: 2025-08-04 -
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Publicerades: 2025-08-03 -
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Publicerades: 2025-08-01 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Publicerades: 2025-07-31 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Publicerades: 2025-07-30 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Publicerades: 2025-07-29 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Publicerades: 2025-07-28 -
A Chorus Line
Publicerades: 2025-07-25 -
The invention of Kevlar
Publicerades: 2025-07-24 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Publicerades: 2025-07-23 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publicerades: 2025-07-22
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.
