Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Publicerades: 2021-01-13 -
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
Publicerades: 2021-01-12 -
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Publicerades: 2021-01-11 -
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Publicerades: 2021-01-08 -
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
Publicerades: 2021-01-07 -
The 'strike' in space
Publicerades: 2021-01-06 -
Buddhists and death row
Publicerades: 2021-01-05 -
The oldest song in the world
Publicerades: 2021-01-04 -
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas
Publicerades: 2021-01-01 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Publicerades: 2020-12-31 -
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
Publicerades: 2020-12-30 -
The building of the Aswan Dam
Publicerades: 2020-12-29 -
UNESCO and race and tolerance
Publicerades: 2020-12-28 -
It's a Wonderful Life
Publicerades: 2020-12-25 -
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Publicerades: 2020-12-24 -
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
Publicerades: 2020-12-23 -
The Sound of Music
Publicerades: 2020-12-22 -
The Great Dictator
Publicerades: 2020-12-21 -
The GDR's Namibian children
Publicerades: 2020-12-18 -
The blockade of Gibraltar
Publicerades: 2020-12-17
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.
