Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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The Germanwings plane crash
Publicerades: 2025-03-24 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Publicerades: 2025-03-21 -
The historic handshake in space
Publicerades: 2025-03-20 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Publicerades: 2025-03-19 -
First spacewalk
Publicerades: 2025-03-18 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Publicerades: 2025-03-17 -
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Publicerades: 2025-03-14 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Publicerades: 2025-03-13 -
The Capitol Crawl
Publicerades: 2025-03-12 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Publicerades: 2025-03-11 -
The invention of GPS
Publicerades: 2025-03-10 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Publicerades: 2025-03-07 -
The Great Toyota War
Publicerades: 2025-03-06 -
The US invasion of Panama
Publicerades: 2025-03-05 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Publicerades: 2025-03-04 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Publicerades: 2025-03-03 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Publicerades: 2025-02-28 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Publicerades: 2025-02-27 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Publicerades: 2025-02-26 -
The Nellie massacre
Publicerades: 2025-02-25
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.
