Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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First women’s minister in Iran
Publicerades: 2022-11-22 -
The invention of the seat belt
Publicerades: 2022-11-21 -
Qatar's first female published author
Publicerades: 2022-11-18 -
First Emirati female teacher
Publicerades: 2022-11-17 -
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Publicerades: 2022-11-16 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Publicerades: 2022-11-15 -
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Publicerades: 2022-11-14 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Publicerades: 2022-11-11 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Publicerades: 2022-11-10 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Publicerades: 2022-11-09 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Publicerades: 2022-11-08 -
Polynesian Panthers
Publicerades: 2022-11-07 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Publicerades: 2022-11-04 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Publicerades: 2022-11-03 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Publicerades: 2022-11-02 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Publicerades: 2022-11-01 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Publicerades: 2022-10-31 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Publicerades: 2022-10-28 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Publicerades: 2022-10-27 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Publicerades: 2022-10-26
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.
