Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1503 Avsnitt
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Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Publicerades: 2025-07-21 -
Italo disco
Publicerades: 2025-07-18 -
The 'Turbot War'
Publicerades: 2025-07-17 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Publicerades: 2025-07-16 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Publicerades: 2025-07-15 -
The start of Voice of America
Publicerades: 2025-07-14 -
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Publicerades: 2025-07-11 -
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Publicerades: 2025-07-10 -
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
Publicerades: 2025-07-09 -
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Publicerades: 2025-07-08 -
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Publicerades: 2025-07-07 -
Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Publicerades: 2025-07-04 -
Back to the Future
Publicerades: 2025-07-03 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Publicerades: 2025-07-02 -
Cecil the lion
Publicerades: 2025-07-01 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Publicerades: 2025-06-30 -
Italian happiness trains
Publicerades: 2025-06-27 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Publicerades: 2025-06-26 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Publicerades: 2025-06-25 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Publicerades: 2025-06-24
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.
