Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City
Publicerades: 2022-06-30 -
Hong Kong: Abandoned children
Publicerades: 2022-06-30 -
Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
Publicerades: 2022-06-29 -
Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner
Publicerades: 2022-06-28 -
Hong Kong: The handover
Publicerades: 2022-06-27 -
The UK's first official gay Pride March
Publicerades: 2022-06-24 -
Egypt's first democratic presidential election
Publicerades: 2022-06-23 -
The killing of Vincent Chin
Publicerades: 2022-06-22 -
Robot Surgeon
Publicerades: 2022-06-21 -
India's surrogacy capital
Publicerades: 2022-06-20 -
Cambodia war crimes
Publicerades: 2022-06-17 -
James Joyce and Ulysses
Publicerades: 2022-06-16 -
New York's LGBT High School
Publicerades: 2022-06-15 -
Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
Publicerades: 2022-06-14 -
Holy Cross school dispute
Publicerades: 2022-06-13 -
The Gulabi Gang
Publicerades: 2022-06-10 -
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Publicerades: 2022-06-09 -
Saving Gabon's rainforest
Publicerades: 2022-06-08 -
The Diary of Anne Frank
Publicerades: 2022-06-07 -
The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Publicerades: 2022-06-06
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.
