Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The Cutter Incident
Publicerades: 2020-10-21 -
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Publicerades: 2020-10-20 -
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Publicerades: 2020-10-19 -
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Publicerades: 2020-10-16 -
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
Publicerades: 2020-10-15 -
The last of the Kazakh herders
Publicerades: 2020-10-14 -
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
Publicerades: 2020-10-13 -
The launch of CNN
Publicerades: 2020-10-12 -
The Battle of Lewisham
Publicerades: 2020-10-09 -
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Publicerades: 2020-10-08 -
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Publicerades: 2020-10-07 -
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Publicerades: 2020-10-06 -
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
Publicerades: 2020-10-05 -
The house by the lake
Publicerades: 2020-10-02 -
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Publicerades: 2020-10-01 -
The founding of Google
Publicerades: 2020-09-30 -
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
Publicerades: 2020-09-29 -
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Publicerades: 2020-09-28 -
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
Publicerades: 2020-09-25 -
Blackwater killed my son
Publicerades: 2020-09-24
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.
