Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Paris is Burning
Publicerades: 2021-03-15 -
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Publicerades: 2021-03-11 -
Jane: The underground abortion network
Publicerades: 2021-03-10 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Publicerades: 2021-03-09 -
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Publicerades: 2021-03-08 -
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
Publicerades: 2021-03-05 -
The Sharpeville massacre
Publicerades: 2021-03-04 -
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
Publicerades: 2021-03-03 -
Refugee Island
Publicerades: 2021-03-02 -
The world's deepest dive 11km down
Publicerades: 2021-03-01 -
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
Publicerades: 2021-02-25 -
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Publicerades: 2021-02-24 -
Ireland's bank bailout
Publicerades: 2021-02-23 -
Acid rain
Publicerades: 2021-02-22 -
Mary Wilson
Publicerades: 2021-02-19 -
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
Publicerades: 2021-02-18 -
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Publicerades: 2021-02-17 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
Publicerades: 2021-02-16 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
Publicerades: 2021-02-15 -
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
Publicerades: 2021-02-12
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.
