Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Publisert: 2.7.2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Publisert: 1.7.2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Publisert: 29.6.2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Publisert: 27.6.2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Publisert: 26.6.2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Publisert: 25.6.2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Publisert: 24.6.2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Publisert: 21.6.2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Publisert: 20.6.2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Publisert: 19.6.2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Publisert: 18.6.2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Publisert: 17.6.2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Publisert: 14.6.2024 -
Kielland disaster
Publisert: 13.6.2024
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.
