Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1578 Episoder
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The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Publisert: 3.10.2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Publisert: 2.10.2025 -
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
Publisert: 1.10.2025 -
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
Publisert: 30.9.2025 -
The Cradock Four killings
Publisert: 29.9.2025 -
Guinea stadium massacre
Publisert: 26.9.2025 -
The secretary who made millions from her typos
Publisert: 25.9.2025 -
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
Publisert: 24.9.2025 -
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
Publisert: 23.9.2025 -
The start of Scouting
Publisert: 22.9.2025 -
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
Publisert: 19.9.2025 -
The Aswan High Dam
Publisert: 18.9.2025 -
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Publisert: 17.9.2025 -
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Publisert: 16.9.2025 -
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
Publisert: 15.9.2025 -
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
Publisert: 12.9.2025 -
9/11: The generosity of Gander
Publisert: 10.9.2025 -
The story behind The Peter Principle book
Publisert: 10.9.2025 -
The Enabling Act
Publisert: 9.9.2025 -
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
Publisert: 8.9.2025
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.
