Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The writer of Mary Poppins
Publisert: 27.8.2024 -
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Publisert: 26.8.2024 -
Spain's La Tomatina
Publisert: 23.8.2024 -
India’s first female bartender
Publisert: 22.8.2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Publisert: 22.8.2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Publisert: 20.8.2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Publisert: 19.8.2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Publisert: 16.8.2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Publisert: 15.8.2024 -
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Publisert: 14.8.2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Publisert: 13.8.2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Publisert: 12.8.2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Publisert: 9.8.2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Publisert: 8.8.2024
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.
