Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Publisert: 24.9.2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Publisert: 23.9.2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Publisert: 20.9.2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Publisert: 19.9.2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Publisert: 18.9.2024 -
Camouflaging Leningrad
Publisert: 17.9.2024 -
The invention of the CT scanner
Publisert: 16.9.2024 -
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Publisert: 13.9.2024 -
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Publisert: 12.9.2024 -
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Publisert: 11.9.2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Publisert: 10.9.2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Publisert: 9.9.2024 -
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
Publisert: 6.9.2024 -
Apollo 13
Publisert: 5.9.2024 -
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Publisert: 4.9.2024 -
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
Publisert: 3.9.2024 -
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Publisert: 2.9.2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Publisert: 30.8.2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Publisert: 29.8.2024 -
Waris Dirie
Publisert: 28.8.2024
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.
