Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Publicerades: 2022-06-03 -
Sarin attack in Syria
Publicerades: 2022-06-02 -
Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
Publicerades: 2022-06-01 -
Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
Publicerades: 2022-05-31 -
The attack on Lod Airport
Publicerades: 2022-05-30 -
Georgia O'Keeffe
Publicerades: 2022-05-27 -
The World Festival of Black Arts
Publicerades: 2022-05-26 -
The museum of banned Russian art
Publicerades: 2022-05-25 -
The last days of Frida Kahlo
Publicerades: 2022-05-24 -
Meeting Picasso
Publicerades: 2022-05-23 -
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
Publicerades: 2022-05-20 -
Chasing the Marcos millions
Publicerades: 2022-05-20 -
Shanghai at War
Publicerades: 2022-05-19 -
The first McDonald's in Moscow
Publicerades: 2022-05-18 -
People Power in the Philippines
Publicerades: 2022-05-16 -
The war in Transnistria
Publicerades: 2022-05-13 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Publicerades: 2022-05-11 -
China opens up to capitalism
Publicerades: 2022-05-10 -
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Publicerades: 2022-05-09 -
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Publicerades: 2022-05-06
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.
