Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Publisert: 12.6.2024 -
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Publisert: 11.6.2024 -
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
Publisert: 10.6.2024 -
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Publisert: 7.6.2024 -
Saving lives on D-Day
Publisert: 6.6.2024 -
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Publisert: 5.6.2024 -
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
Publisert: 4.6.2024 -
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Publisert: 3.6.2024 -
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Publisert: 31.5.2024 -
The Flint water crisis
Publisert: 30.5.2024 -
The first Aboriginal MP
Publisert: 29.5.2024 -
The first ever quintuplets
Publisert: 28.5.2024 -
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
Publisert: 27.5.2024 -
How Air Jordans were created
Publisert: 24.5.2024 -
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Publisert: 23.5.2024 -
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
Publisert: 22.5.2024 -
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Publisert: 21.5.2024 -
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
Publisert: 20.5.2024 -
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Publisert: 17.5.2024 -
Baghdad heavy metal
Publisert: 16.5.2024
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.
