Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'
Publicerades: 2021-05-13 -
The Jewish exodus from Iraq
Publicerades: 2021-05-12 -
Legalising contraception in Ireland
Publicerades: 2021-05-11 -
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
Publicerades: 2021-05-10 -
The Great Wine Fraud
Publicerades: 2021-05-06 -
Ursula Le Guin
Publicerades: 2021-05-05 -
The IRA hunger strikes
Publicerades: 2021-05-04 -
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
Publicerades: 2021-05-03 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Publicerades: 2021-04-30 -
The battle of Tora Bora
Publicerades: 2021-04-29 -
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
Publicerades: 2021-04-28 -
Meeting Osama bin Laden
Publicerades: 2021-04-27 -
The siege of Mecca
Publicerades: 2021-04-26 -
The first space shuttle mission
Publicerades: 2021-04-23 -
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Publicerades: 2021-04-22 -
The Raymond Davis Incident
Publicerades: 2021-04-21 -
The return of Blue Lake
Publicerades: 2021-04-20 -
The Eichmann trial
Publicerades: 2021-04-19 -
China's 'Kingdom of women'
Publicerades: 2021-04-16 -
The vultures saved from extinction
Publicerades: 2021-04-15
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.
