Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The first Emirati female teacher
Publicerades: 2022-02-03 -
The day the world looked up
Publicerades: 2022-02-02 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Publicerades: 2022-02-01 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Publicerades: 2022-01-28 -
IRA gun-running in America
Publicerades: 2022-01-27 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Publicerades: 2022-01-26 -
Bloody Sunday
Publicerades: 2022-01-25 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Publicerades: 2022-01-24 -
A Cold War love affair
Publicerades: 2022-01-21 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Publicerades: 2022-01-20 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Publicerades: 2022-01-20 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Publicerades: 2022-01-17 -
The first silicone breast implants
Publicerades: 2022-01-14 -
Costa Concordia
Publicerades: 2022-01-13 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Publicerades: 2022-01-12 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Publicerades: 2022-01-11 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Publicerades: 2022-01-10 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Publicerades: 2022-01-06 -
Marcel Proust
Publicerades: 2022-01-05 -
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Publicerades: 2022-01-04
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.
