Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Publisert: 27.11.2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Publisert: 26.11.2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Publisert: 25.11.2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Publisert: 22.11.2024 -
Lord of the Flies
Publisert: 21.11.2024 -
Handover of Macau
Publisert: 20.11.2024 -
The Siege of Yarmouk
Publisert: 19.11.2024 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Publisert: 18.11.2024 -
German naturists
Publisert: 15.11.2024 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Publisert: 14.11.2024 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Publisert: 13.11.2024 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Publisert: 12.11.2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Publisert: 11.11.2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Publisert: 8.11.2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Publisert: 7.11.2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Publisert: 6.11.2024 -
In exile from Iran
Publisert: 5.11.2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Publisert: 4.11.2024 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Publisert: 1.11.2024 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Publisert: 31.10.2024
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.
