Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
Publisert: 7.8.2023 -
Dinosaur in court
Publisert: 4.8.2023 -
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
Publisert: 3.8.2023 -
Birth of a new language
Publisert: 2.8.2023 -
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
Publisert: 1.8.2023 -
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Publisert: 31.7.2023 -
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
Publisert: 28.7.2023 -
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
Publisert: 27.7.2023 -
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Publisert: 26.7.2023 -
Brain: The first personal computer virus
Publisert: 25.7.2023 -
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
Publisert: 24.7.2023 -
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
Publisert: 21.7.2023 -
The birth of Barbie
Publisert: 20.7.2023 -
Japan surrenders in China
Publisert: 19.7.2023 -
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Publisert: 18.7.2023 -
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Publisert: 17.7.2023 -
Creating the first emoji
Publisert: 14.7.2023 -
When disposable nappies were invented
Publisert: 13.7.2023 -
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Publisert: 11.7.2023 -
Invention of the ballpoint pen
Publisert: 10.7.2023
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.
