Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Festival of Light
Publicerades: 2022-09-23 -
Iran-Iraq War begins
Publicerades: 2022-09-22 -
The first Pope to visit Africa
Publicerades: 2022-09-21 -
Ancient fossils give new insight
Publicerades: 2022-09-20 -
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Publicerades: 2022-09-19 -
The last days of Queen Victoria
Publicerades: 2022-09-16 -
When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace
Publicerades: 2022-09-15 -
Windsor Castle fire
Publicerades: 2022-09-14 -
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby
Publicerades: 2022-09-13 -
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Publicerades: 2022-09-12 -
The car that charmed Brazil
Publicerades: 2022-09-10 -
The Candelaria child massacre
Publicerades: 2022-09-08 -
Building of Brasilia
Publicerades: 2022-09-07 -
The murder that shocked Brazil
Publicerades: 2022-09-06 -
Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy
Publicerades: 2022-09-05 -
Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya
Publicerades: 2022-09-02 -
Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika
Publicerades: 2022-09-01 -
Princess Diana dances with John Travolta
Publicerades: 2022-08-31 -
The 'Last Indian'
Publicerades: 2022-08-30 -
Marikana Massacre
Publicerades: 2022-08-29
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.
