Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Publisert: 4.9.2023 -
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Publisert: 1.9.2023 -
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Publisert: 31.8.2023 -
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
Publisert: 30.8.2023 -
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
Publisert: 29.8.2023 -
The Bristol bus boycott
Publisert: 28.8.2023 -
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
Publisert: 25.8.2023 -
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
Publisert: 24.8.2023 -
The first Rose of Tralee
Publisert: 23.8.2023 -
How electricity came to rural Ireland
Publisert: 22.8.2023 -
Easter Rising in Ireland
Publisert: 21.8.2023 -
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
Publisert: 18.8.2023 -
Judy Garland: The final shows
Publisert: 17.8.2023 -
Returning Benin Bronzes
Publisert: 16.8.2023 -
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
Publisert: 15.8.2023 -
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
Publisert: 14.8.2023 -
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
Publisert: 11.8.2023 -
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Publisert: 10.8.2023 -
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
Publisert: 9.8.2023 -
The Great Train Robbery
Publisert: 8.8.2023
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.
