Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Adrift for 76 days
Publicerades: 2020-07-29 -
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
Publicerades: 2020-07-28 -
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Publicerades: 2020-07-27 -
The fastest vaccine ever developed
Publicerades: 2020-07-24 -
The first safe house for Afghan women
Publicerades: 2020-07-23 -
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
Publicerades: 2020-07-22 -
The Million Man March
Publicerades: 2020-07-21 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Publicerades: 2020-07-20 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Publicerades: 2020-07-17 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Publicerades: 2020-07-16 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Publicerades: 2020-07-15 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Publicerades: 2020-07-14 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Publicerades: 2020-07-13 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Publicerades: 2020-07-10 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Publicerades: 2020-07-09 -
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
Publicerades: 2020-07-08 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Publicerades: 2020-07-07 -
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
Publicerades: 2020-07-06 -
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
Publicerades: 2020-07-03 -
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Publicerades: 2020-07-02
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.
