Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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The Iranian Revolution and women
Publicerades: 2022-10-25 -
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Publicerades: 2022-10-24 -
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Publicerades: 2022-10-21 -
Cuba's boxing ban
Publicerades: 2022-10-20 -
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Publicerades: 2022-10-19 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Publicerades: 2022-10-18 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Publicerades: 2022-10-17 -
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Publicerades: 2022-10-14 -
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Publicerades: 2022-10-12 -
Disney animators' strike
Publicerades: 2022-10-11 -
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
Publicerades: 2022-10-10 -
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
Publicerades: 2022-10-07 -
The Harder They Come
Publicerades: 2022-10-06 -
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
Publicerades: 2022-10-05 -
The release of Gilad Shalit
Publicerades: 2022-10-04 -
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Publicerades: 2022-10-03 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Publicerades: 2022-09-30 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Publicerades: 2022-09-29 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Publicerades: 2022-09-28 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Publicerades: 2022-09-26
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.
