Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit
Publicerades: 2020-09-23 -
How Liberia wrote off its debts
Publicerades: 2020-09-22 -
The Galileo project
Publicerades: 2020-09-21 -
The mothers of Argentina's disappeared
Publicerades: 2020-09-18 -
Tank Man
Publicerades: 2020-09-17 -
The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in
Publicerades: 2020-09-16 -
The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
Publicerades: 2020-09-15 -
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
Publicerades: 2020-09-14 -
Why the US rejected universal healthcare
Publicerades: 2020-09-11 -
Banning alcohol in an Indian state
Publicerades: 2020-09-10 -
The birth of Reddit
Publicerades: 2020-09-09 -
The Dawson's Field hijacking
Publicerades: 2020-09-09 -
Haiti's cholera outbreak
Publicerades: 2020-09-08 -
Care in the Community
Publicerades: 2020-09-04 -
The Cape Town bombings
Publicerades: 2020-09-03 -
The birth of the Sony Walkman
Publicerades: 2020-09-02 -
Flying through a volcano
Publicerades: 2020-09-01 -
Inventing James Bond
Publicerades: 2020-08-31 -
Who has the right to vote in America?
Publicerades: 2020-08-28 -
St Kilda
Publicerades: 2020-08-27
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.
