Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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The Milltown Cemetery attack
Publicerades: 2025-01-27 -
The launch of Windows 95
Publicerades: 2025-01-24 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Publicerades: 2025-01-23 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Publicerades: 2025-01-22 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Publicerades: 2025-01-21 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Publicerades: 2025-01-20 -
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Publicerades: 2025-01-17 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Publicerades: 2025-01-16 -
Kobe earthquake
Publicerades: 2025-01-15 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Publicerades: 2025-01-14 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Publicerades: 2025-01-13 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Publicerades: 2025-01-10 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Publicerades: 2025-01-09 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Publicerades: 2025-01-08 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Publicerades: 2025-01-07 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Publicerades: 2025-01-02 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Publicerades: 2025-01-01 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Publicerades: 2024-12-31 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Publicerades: 2024-12-30 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Publicerades: 2024-12-27
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.
