Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
Publisert: 16.3.2023 -
Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
Publisert: 15.3.2023 -
Iraq War: Refugees escaping
Publisert: 14.3.2023 -
Iraq War: The beginning
Publisert: 13.3.2023 -
From a goddess to a graduate
Publisert: 10.3.2023 -
Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Publisert: 9.3.2023 -
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Publisert: 6.3.2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Publisert: 3.3.2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Publisert: 2.3.2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Publisert: 1.3.2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Publisert: 28.2.2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Publisert: 27.2.2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Publisert: 24.2.2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Publisert: 23.2.2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Publisert: 22.2.2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Publisert: 21.2.2023 -
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
Publisert: 20.2.2023 -
First winter ascent of Everest
Publisert: 17.2.2023 -
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
Publisert: 16.2.2023 -
'I developed Pokémon'
Publisert: 15.2.2023
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.
