Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Publicerades: 2021-04-14 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Publicerades: 2021-04-13 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Publicerades: 2021-04-12 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Publicerades: 2021-04-09 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Publicerades: 2021-04-08 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Publicerades: 2021-04-07 -
Mexico's female serial killer
Publicerades: 2021-04-06 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Publicerades: 2021-04-05 -
Black Jesus
Publicerades: 2021-04-02 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Publicerades: 2021-04-01 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Publicerades: 2021-03-31 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Publicerades: 2021-03-30 -
Anorexia nervosa
Publicerades: 2021-03-29 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Publicerades: 2021-03-25 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Publicerades: 2021-03-24 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Publicerades: 2021-03-23 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Publicerades: 2021-03-22 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Publicerades: 2021-03-19 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Publicerades: 2021-03-18 -
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
Publicerades: 2021-03-17
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.
