Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Publicerades: 2025-02-24 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Publicerades: 2025-02-21 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Publicerades: 2025-02-20 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Publicerades: 2025-02-19 -
Bo: The death of a language
Publicerades: 2025-02-18 -
The world's longest kiss
Publicerades: 2025-02-17 -
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Publicerades: 2025-02-14 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Publicerades: 2025-02-13 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Publicerades: 2025-02-12 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Publicerades: 2025-02-11 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Publicerades: 2025-02-10 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Publicerades: 2025-02-07 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Publicerades: 2025-02-06 -
Cuban blindness
Publicerades: 2025-02-05 -
Oradour massacre
Publicerades: 2025-02-04 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Publicerades: 2025-02-03 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Publicerades: 2025-01-31 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Publicerades: 2025-01-30 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Publicerades: 2025-01-29 -
The Baltic chain protest
Publicerades: 2025-01-28
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.
