Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Escaping from East Berlin
Publicerades: 2021-08-10 -
The building of the Berlin Wall
Publicerades: 2021-08-09 -
Gay activism in 1990s India
Publicerades: 2021-08-06 -
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Publicerades: 2021-08-05 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Publicerades: 2021-08-04 -
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Publicerades: 2021-08-03 -
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
Publicerades: 2021-08-02 -
The Tsunami and Fukushima
Publicerades: 2021-07-30 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Publicerades: 2021-07-29 -
The soldier who never surrendered
Publicerades: 2021-07-28 -
The birth of Karaoke
Publicerades: 2021-07-27 -
Japan's Bullet Train
Publicerades: 2021-07-26 -
When war came to Darfur
Publicerades: 2021-07-22 -
Surviving Norway's day of terror
Publicerades: 2021-07-21 -
The Battle of Gondar
Publicerades: 2021-07-20 -
Domestic violence in Brazil
Publicerades: 2021-07-19 -
England's summer of riots
Publicerades: 2021-07-16 -
When the Taliban took Kabul
Publicerades: 2021-07-15 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Publicerades: 2021-07-14 -
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Publicerades: 2021-07-13
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.
