Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1511 Avsnitt
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The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publicerades: 2025-06-05 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publicerades: 2025-06-04 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publicerades: 2025-06-03 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Publicerades: 2025-06-02 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Publicerades: 2025-05-30 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Publicerades: 2025-05-29 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Publicerades: 2025-05-28 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Publicerades: 2025-05-27 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Publicerades: 2025-05-26 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Publicerades: 2025-05-23 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Publicerades: 2025-05-22 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Publicerades: 2025-05-21 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Publicerades: 2025-05-20 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Publicerades: 2025-05-19 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Publicerades: 2025-05-16 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Publicerades: 2025-05-15 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Publicerades: 2025-05-14 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Publicerades: 2025-05-13 -
Intervision Song Contest
Publicerades: 2025-05-12 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publicerades: 2025-05-09
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.
