Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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British reality TV is born
Publicerades: 2020-12-16 -
The birth of Bangladesh
Publicerades: 2020-12-15 -
White Christmas
Publicerades: 2020-12-14 -
The return of the beaver
Publicerades: 2020-12-11 -
Neanderthal cave mystery
Publicerades: 2020-12-10 -
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Publicerades: 2020-12-09 -
The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'
Publicerades: 2020-12-08 -
The life and work of Chester Himes
Publicerades: 2020-12-07 -
The V1 flying bomb
Publicerades: 2020-12-04 -
The slaves who defeated Napoleon
Publicerades: 2020-12-02 -
France's Muslim headscarf ban
Publicerades: 2020-12-02 -
Iraq's pioneering feminist
Publicerades: 2020-12-01 -
How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991
Publicerades: 2020-11-30 -
The fight for disabled rights in the UK
Publicerades: 2020-11-27 -
Rwanda at the Paralympics
Publicerades: 2020-11-26 -
India's campaign for disability rights
Publicerades: 2020-11-25 -
Britain's little blue disability car
Publicerades: 2020-11-24 -
Helen Keller
Publicerades: 2020-11-23 -
When the Egyptian president went to Israel
Publicerades: 2020-11-20 -
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Publicerades: 2020-11-19
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.
