Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
Publisert: 16.1.2024 -
The hunger-striking Bolivian president
Publisert: 15.1.2024 -
Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
Publisert: 12.1.2024 -
The first World Laughter Day
Publisert: 11.1.2024 -
Russian ballerina defects to the west
Publisert: 10.1.2024 -
The mystery of France's lost king
Publisert: 9.1.2024 -
The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
Publisert: 8.1.2024 -
What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
Publisert: 5.1.2024 -
The Hindenburg airship disaster
Publisert: 4.1.2024 -
The invention of the wingsuit
Publisert: 3.1.2024 -
Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
Publisert: 2.1.2024 -
Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
Publisert: 1.1.2024 -
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
Publisert: 29.12.2023 -
The disputed history of pad Thai
Publisert: 28.12.2023 -
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
Publisert: 27.12.2023 -
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
Publisert: 26.12.2023 -
Inventing Nutella
Publisert: 25.12.2023 -
'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
Publisert: 22.12.2023 -
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
Publisert: 21.12.2023 -
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
Publisert: 20.12.2023
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.
