Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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America's WW2 refugee camp
Publicerades: 2020-11-18 -
The world's first woman premier
Publicerades: 2020-11-17 -
Captured by Somali pirates
Publicerades: 2020-11-16 -
The 'good enough' mother
Publicerades: 2020-11-13 -
When Pluto lost its planet status
Publicerades: 2020-11-12 -
World War One in Africa
Publicerades: 2020-11-11 -
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Publicerades: 2020-11-10 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Publicerades: 2020-11-09 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Publicerades: 2020-11-06 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Publicerades: 2020-11-05 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Publicerades: 2020-11-04 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Publicerades: 2020-11-03 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Publicerades: 2020-11-02 -
With the president on 9/11
Publicerades: 2020-10-30 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Publicerades: 2020-10-29 -
The Watergate scandal
Publicerades: 2020-10-28 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Publicerades: 2020-10-27 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Publicerades: 2020-10-26 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Publicerades: 2020-10-23 -
The missing victims of apartheid
Publicerades: 2020-10-22
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.
