Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Paraguay adopts its second language
Publisert: 13.3.2024 -
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
Publisert: 12.3.2024 -
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Publisert: 11.3.2024 -
MH370: The plane that vanished
Publisert: 8.3.2024 -
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
Publisert: 7.3.2024 -
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
Publisert: 6.3.2024 -
French child evacuees of World War Two
Publisert: 5.3.2024 -
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
Publisert: 4.3.2024 -
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
Publisert: 1.3.2024 -
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
Publisert: 29.2.2024 -
The lost Czech scrolls
Publisert: 28.2.2024 -
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Publisert: 27.2.2024 -
Russia annexes Crimea
Publisert: 26.2.2024 -
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Publisert: 23.2.2024 -
Columbus Lighthouse
Publisert: 22.2.2024 -
Trans murder in Honduras
Publisert: 21.2.2024 -
Icelandic women's strike
Publisert: 20.2.2024 -
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Publisert: 19.2.2024 -
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
Publisert: 16.2.2024 -
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
Publisert: 15.2.2024
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.
