Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
Publisert: 15.5.2024 -
The creation of the state of Israel
Publisert: 14.5.2024 -
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
Publisert: 13.5.2024 -
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
Publisert: 10.5.2024 -
How a billion Indians got a digital ID
Publisert: 9.5.2024 -
The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
Publisert: 8.5.2024 -
East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Publisert: 7.5.2024 -
Friends: The making of a smash hit
Publisert: 6.5.2024 -
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Publisert: 3.5.2024 -
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
Publisert: 2.5.2024 -
How to win friends and influence people
Publisert: 1.5.2024 -
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Publisert: 30.4.2024 -
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Publisert: 29.4.2024 -
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Publisert: 26.4.2024 -
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Publisert: 25.4.2024 -
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Publisert: 24.4.2024 -
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
Publisert: 23.4.2024 -
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Publisert: 22.4.2024 -
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Publisert: 19.4.2024 -
Deadly Everest avalanche
Publisert: 18.4.2024
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.
