Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Publicerades: 2025-04-17 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Publicerades: 2025-04-16 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Publicerades: 2025-04-16 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Publicerades: 2025-04-14 -
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Publicerades: 2025-04-11 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Publicerades: 2025-04-10 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Publicerades: 2025-04-09 -
The Reichstag fire
Publicerades: 2025-04-08 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Publicerades: 2025-04-07 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Publicerades: 2025-04-04 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Publicerades: 2025-04-03 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Publicerades: 2025-04-02 -
The invention of superglue
Publicerades: 2025-04-01 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Publicerades: 2025-03-31 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Publicerades: 2025-03-28 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Publicerades: 2025-03-27 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Publicerades: 2025-03-26 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Publicerades: 2025-03-25 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Publicerades: 2025-03-24 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Publicerades: 2025-03-21
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.
