Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The assassination of King Faisal
Publisert: 19.12.2023 -
Tsunami devastates Samoa
Publisert: 18.12.2023 -
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Publisert: 15.12.2023 -
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Publisert: 14.12.2023 -
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Publisert: 13.12.2023 -
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Publisert: 12.12.2023 -
Murder of the Romanovs
Publisert: 11.12.2023 -
The release of DOOM
Publisert: 8.12.2023 -
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
Publisert: 7.12.2023 -
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Publisert: 6.12.2023 -
La Haine: The film that shocked France
Publisert: 4.12.2023 -
World's first solar-heated home
Publisert: 1.12.2023 -
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Publisert: 30.11.2023 -
The bird that defied extinction
Publisert: 28.11.2023 -
Cabbage Patch Kids
Publisert: 27.11.2023 -
The Mumbai attacks
Publisert: 24.11.2023 -
The Paris heatwave
Publisert: 23.11.2023 -
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
Publisert: 22.11.2023 -
The invention of bubble tea
Publisert: 21.11.2023 -
The independence of Zambia
Publisert: 20.11.2023
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.
