Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Osmondmania
Publisert: 20.10.2023 -
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Publisert: 19.10.2023 -
Mexico’s murdered women
Publisert: 18.10.2023 -
Rana Plaza building collapse
Publisert: 17.10.2023 -
Cambodian peace walk
Publisert: 16.10.2023 -
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
Publisert: 13.10.2023 -
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
Publisert: 12.10.2023 -
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
Publisert: 11.10.2023 -
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
Publisert: 10.10.2023 -
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Publisert: 9.10.2023 -
Protectors of the Amazon
Publisert: 6.10.2023 -
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Publisert: 5.10.2023 -
Nigeria strikes oil
Publisert: 4.10.2023 -
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
Publisert: 3.10.2023 -
The oil crisis of 1973
Publisert: 2.10.2023 -
The first cat cafe
Publisert: 29.9.2023 -
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy
Publisert: 28.9.2023 -
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia
Publisert: 27.9.2023 -
Concorde's first flight
Publisert: 26.9.2023 -
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster
Publisert: 25.9.2023
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.
