Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Publicerades: 2022-12-20 -
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Publicerades: 2022-12-19 -
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Publicerades: 2022-12-16 -
Soviet fashionista
Publicerades: 2022-12-15 -
Returning to District Six
Publicerades: 2022-12-14 -
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Publicerades: 2022-12-13 -
Mongolian revolution
Publicerades: 2022-12-12 -
Creating Teletubbies
Publicerades: 2022-12-09 -
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
Publicerades: 2022-12-08 -
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publicerades: 2022-12-07 -
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Publicerades: 2022-12-06 -
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Publicerades: 2022-12-05 -
Miss World protest
Publicerades: 2022-12-02 -
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Publicerades: 2022-12-01 -
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
Publicerades: 2022-11-30 -
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Publicerades: 2022-11-29 -
Mombasa terror attacks
Publicerades: 2022-11-28 -
How cat's eyes were invented
Publicerades: 2022-11-25 -
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
Publicerades: 2022-11-24 -
When Sweden’s roads went right
Publicerades: 2022-11-23
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.
