Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Occupy Wall Street
Publicerades: 2020-08-26 -
America's first woman combat pilot
Publicerades: 2020-08-25 -
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Publicerades: 2020-08-24 -
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Publicerades: 2020-08-21 -
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
Publicerades: 2020-08-20 -
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
Publicerades: 2020-08-20 -
The first modern asthma inhaler
Publicerades: 2020-08-19 -
The lost King of England
Publicerades: 2020-08-18 -
Surviving Saddam
Publicerades: 2020-08-17 -
The invention of the modern ventilator
Publicerades: 2020-08-14 -
Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
Publicerades: 2020-08-13 -
Beirut's Hotel War
Publicerades: 2020-08-12 -
Bremen’s Elephant Statue
Publicerades: 2020-08-11 -
Radar and World War Two
Publicerades: 2020-08-10 -
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Publicerades: 2020-08-06 -
The battle of Midway
Publicerades: 2020-08-05 -
The internment of Japanese Americans
Publicerades: 2020-08-04 -
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Publicerades: 2020-08-03 -
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Publicerades: 2020-07-31 -
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
Publicerades: 2020-07-30
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.
