Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Discovering the Terracotta Army
Publisert: 21.3.2024 -
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Publisert: 20.3.2024 -
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Publisert: 19.3.2024 -
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
Publisert: 18.3.2024 -
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Publisert: 15.3.2024 -
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Publisert: 14.3.2024 -
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
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.
