Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
Publisert: 17.11.2023 -
The Bolivian Water War
Publisert: 16.11.2023 -
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Publisert: 15.11.2023 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
Publisert: 14.11.2023 -
The invention of the EpiPen
Publisert: 13.11.2023 -
The hippo and the tortoise
Publisert: 10.11.2023 -
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
Publisert: 9.11.2023 -
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Publisert: 8.11.2023 -
Debbie McGee in Iran
Publisert: 7.11.2023 -
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Publisert: 6.11.2023 -
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Publisert: 3.11.2023 -
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Publisert: 2.11.2023 -
Inventing the black box
Publisert: 1.11.2023 -
The discovery of the HIV virus
Publisert: 31.10.2023 -
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Publisert: 30.10.2023 -
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
Publisert: 27.10.2023 -
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
Publisert: 26.10.2023 -
The 1993 MAD hijack
Publisert: 25.10.2023 -
The 1980 Turkey coup
Publisert: 24.10.2023 -
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Publisert: 23.10.2023
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.
