Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The year of the vuvuzela
Publisert: 22.9.2023 -
Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack
Publisert: 21.9.2023 -
The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'
Publisert: 20.9.2023 -
Fighting for legal abortion in Italy
Publisert: 19.9.2023 -
Nazi eugenics
Publisert: 18.9.2023 -
The Ramallah concert
Publisert: 15.9.2023 -
The siege at the Church of the Nativity
Publisert: 14.9.2023 -
Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa
Publisert: 13.9.2023 -
Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed
Publisert: 12.9.2023 -
Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal
Publisert: 11.9.2023 -
Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup
Publisert: 8.9.2023 -
Organising Chile's 1973 military coup
Publisert: 7.9.2023 -
Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh
Publisert: 6.9.2023 -
Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'
Publisert: 5.9.2023
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.
