Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Publicerades: 2020-07-01 -
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Publicerades: 2020-06-30 -
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
Publicerades: 2020-06-29 -
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
Publicerades: 2020-06-26 -
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
Publicerades: 2020-06-25 -
Tanzania's socialist experiment
Publicerades: 2020-06-24 -
South Korea's economic miracle
Publicerades: 2020-06-23 -
The New Deal
Publicerades: 2020-06-22 -
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
Publicerades: 2020-06-19 -
The friendship train
Publicerades: 2020-06-18 -
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Publicerades: 2020-06-17 -
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Publicerades: 2020-06-16 -
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
Publicerades: 2020-06-15 -
Three Strikes Law
Publicerades: 2020-06-12 -
Rodney King and the LA riots
Publicerades: 2020-06-11 -
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
Publicerades: 2020-06-10 -
The 16th Street church bombing
Publicerades: 2020-06-09 -
Brown v the Board of Education
Publicerades: 2020-06-08 -
The portable defibrillator
Publicerades: 2020-06-05 -
The origin of the WHO
Publicerades: 2020-06-04
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.
