Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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The handshake in Space
Publicerades: 2022-04-07 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Publicerades: 2022-04-06 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Publicerades: 2022-04-05 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Publicerades: 2022-04-01 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Publicerades: 2022-03-31 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Publicerades: 2022-03-30 -
Banksy’s first street art mural
Publicerades: 2022-03-29 -
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Publicerades: 2022-03-28 -
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Publicerades: 2022-03-25 -
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
Publicerades: 2022-03-24 -
The Budapest Memorandum
Publicerades: 2022-03-22 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Publicerades: 2022-03-21 -
The Shard
Publicerades: 2022-03-18 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Publicerades: 2022-03-17 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Publicerades: 2022-03-16 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Publicerades: 2022-03-15 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Publicerades: 2022-03-14 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Publicerades: 2022-03-11 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Publicerades: 2022-03-10 -
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Publicerades: 2022-03-09
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.
