Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Publisert: 29.6.2023 -
Sampoong department store disaster
Publisert: 28.6.2023 -
First reports of Ebola
Publisert: 27.6.2023 -
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Publisert: 26.6.2023 -
My dad played golf on the moon
Publisert: 23.6.2023 -
The Empire Windrush arrives
Publisert: 22.6.2023 -
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
Publisert: 21.6.2023 -
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Publisert: 20.6.2023 -
Uprising in East Germany
Publisert: 19.6.2023 -
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Publisert: 16.6.2023 -
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Publisert: 15.6.2023 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Publisert: 14.6.2023 -
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Publisert: 13.6.2023 -
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Publisert: 12.6.2023 -
1955 Le Mans disaster
Publisert: 9.6.2023 -
Last communist march before Hitler
Publisert: 8.6.2023 -
Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
Publisert: 6.6.2023 -
Inuit children taken from families
Publisert: 5.6.2023 -
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
Publisert: 2.6.2023 -
Tragedy on Everest
Publisert: 1.6.2023
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.
