Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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How Christo wrapped the Reichstag
Publicerades: 2020-06-03 -
The Zanzibar Revolution
Publicerades: 2020-06-02 -
The start of eco-tourism
Publicerades: 2020-06-01 -
Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer
Publicerades: 2020-05-29 -
Winston Churchill's doctor
Publicerades: 2020-05-28 -
The Gwangju massacre
Publicerades: 2020-05-27 -
The book that changed the way we eat
Publicerades: 2020-05-25 -
Britain's World War Two crime wave
Publicerades: 2020-05-22 -
Explaining autism
Publicerades: 2020-05-21 -
The first 3D printer
Publicerades: 2020-05-20 -
Kowloon Walled City
Publicerades: 2020-05-19 -
The Miami riots
Publicerades: 2020-05-18 -
Sweden's fishy submarine scare
Publicerades: 2020-05-15 -
Confessions of a Prince
Publicerades: 2020-05-14 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Publicerades: 2020-05-13 -
The first 24-hour children's helpline
Publicerades: 2020-05-12 -
The liberation of the Channel Islands
Publicerades: 2020-05-11 -
VE Day
Publicerades: 2020-05-08 -
The Soviet occupation of Berlin
Publicerades: 2020-05-07 -
The battle for Berlin
Publicerades: 2020-05-06
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.
