Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
Publicerades: 2022-03-04 -
The takeover of NTV in Russia
Publicerades: 2022-03-03 -
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
Publicerades: 2022-03-02 -
Putin's war in Chechnya
Publicerades: 2022-03-01 -
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Publicerades: 2022-02-28 -
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
Publicerades: 2022-02-25 -
The death of Trayvon Martin
Publicerades: 2022-02-24 -
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
Publicerades: 2022-02-23 -
Nixon in China
Publicerades: 2022-02-22 -
The first sex worker strike
Publicerades: 2022-02-21 -
The world's first civil union
Publicerades: 2022-02-18 -
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
Publicerades: 2022-02-17 -
The Berlin Patient
Publicerades: 2022-02-16 -
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
Publicerades: 2022-02-15 -
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
Publicerades: 2022-02-14 -
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
Publicerades: 2022-02-11 -
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Publicerades: 2022-02-10 -
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
Publicerades: 2022-02-09 -
The invention of Google Maps
Publicerades: 2022-02-08 -
The demise of the Soviet Union
Publicerades: 2022-02-07
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.
