Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
Publicerades: 2021-10-06 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Publicerades: 2021-10-05 -
London's first black policeman
Publicerades: 2021-10-04 -
The Tanker War
Publicerades: 2021-10-01 -
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
Publicerades: 2021-09-30 -
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
Publicerades: 2021-09-29 -
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Publicerades: 2021-09-28 -
The rise of the Taliban
Publicerades: 2021-09-27 -
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
Publicerades: 2021-09-24 -
James Bond on screen
Publicerades: 2021-09-23 -
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Publicerades: 2021-09-22 -
Mexico's miracle water
Publicerades: 2021-09-21 -
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
Publicerades: 2021-09-20 -
The Peter Principle
Publicerades: 2021-09-17 -
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
Publicerades: 2021-09-16 -
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Publicerades: 2021-09-15 -
The lost king of France
Publicerades: 2021-09-14 -
The Attica prison rebellion
Publicerades: 2021-09-13 -
9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
Publicerades: 2021-09-10 -
America attacks Afghanistan
Publicerades: 2021-09-09
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.
