Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The Fall of Madrid
Publicerades: 2021-06-11 -
The elections that Hamas won
Publicerades: 2021-06-10 -
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
Publicerades: 2021-06-09 -
Tunisia’s legal brothels
Publicerades: 2021-06-08 -
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Publicerades: 2021-06-07 -
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Publicerades: 2021-06-04 -
Afghanistan's poppy problem
Publicerades: 2021-06-03 -
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
Publicerades: 2021-06-02 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Publicerades: 2021-06-01 -
The war on drugs
Publicerades: 2021-05-31 -
The Tulsa Race Massacre
Publicerades: 2021-05-28 -
Rock concert for Chernobyl
Publicerades: 2021-05-27 -
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Publicerades: 2021-05-26 -
The first Arab woman pilot
Publicerades: 2021-05-25 -
The strike that shocked India
Publicerades: 2021-05-24 -
Fighting forced marriage in war
Publicerades: 2021-05-21 -
Saving the world's wetlands
Publicerades: 2021-05-20 -
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Publicerades: 2021-05-18 -
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
Publicerades: 2021-05-17 -
China's Democracy Wall
Publicerades: 2021-05-14
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.
