Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Publisert: 30.7.2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Publisert: 29.7.2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Publisert: 26.7.2024 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Publisert: 25.7.2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Publisert: 24.7.2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Publisert: 23.7.2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Publisert: 22.7.2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Publisert: 19.7.2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Publisert: 18.7.2024 -
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Publisert: 17.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Publisert: 16.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Publisert: 15.7.2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Publisert: 12.7.2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Publisert: 11.7.2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Publisert: 10.7.2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Publisert: 9.7.2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Publisert: 8.7.2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Publisert: 5.7.2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Publisert: 4.7.2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Publisert: 3.7.2024
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.
