Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Intervision Song Contest
Publicerades: 2025-05-12 -
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
Publicerades: 2025-05-09 -
VE Day celebrations
Publicerades: 2025-05-08 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Publicerades: 2025-05-07 -
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Publicerades: 2025-05-06 -
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Publicerades: 2025-05-05 -
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Publicerades: 2025-05-02 -
Ten countries join the EU in one night
Publicerades: 2025-05-01 -
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Publicerades: 2025-04-30 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Publicerades: 2025-04-29 -
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
Publicerades: 2025-04-28 -
The death of Adolf Hitler
Publicerades: 2025-04-25 -
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Publicerades: 2025-04-24 -
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
Publicerades: 2025-04-23 -
The creation of YouTube
Publicerades: 2025-04-22 -
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Publicerades: 2025-04-21 -
The origin of World Book Day
Publicerades: 2025-04-18 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Publicerades: 2025-04-17 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Publicerades: 2025-04-16 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Publicerades: 2025-04-16
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.
