Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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With the president on 9/11
Publicerades: 2021-09-08 -
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
Publicerades: 2021-09-07 -
The warnings before 9/11
Publicerades: 2021-09-06 -
North Korea's founding father
Publicerades: 2021-09-03 -
The businessman who defied the Mafia
Publicerades: 2021-09-02 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon
Publicerades: 2021-09-01 -
The first modern electric car
Publicerades: 2021-08-31 -
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Publicerades: 2021-08-27 -
Syria's rebel poet
Publicerades: 2021-08-26 -
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Publicerades: 2021-08-25 -
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Publicerades: 2021-08-24 -
John Maynard Keynes
Publicerades: 2021-08-23 -
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Publicerades: 2021-08-20 -
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
Publicerades: 2021-08-19 -
India's secret freedom radio
Publicerades: 2021-08-18 -
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
Publicerades: 2021-08-17 -
The man who coined the term genocide
Publicerades: 2021-08-16 -
Inside an East German jail
Publicerades: 2021-08-13 -
East Germany's nudists
Publicerades: 2021-08-12 -
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Publicerades: 2021-08-11
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.
