Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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First Danish queen for 600 years
Publisert: 14.2.2023 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Publisert: 13.2.2023 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Publisert: 10.2.2023 -
The Pope and Jews
Publisert: 9.2.2023 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Publisert: 8.2.2023 -
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
Publisert: 7.2.2023 -
How a Pope is chosen
Publisert: 6.2.2023 -
The first black music station in Europe
Publisert: 3.2.2023 -
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Publisert: 2.2.2023 -
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Publisert: 1.2.2023 -
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Publisert: 31.1.2023 -
Palestine Post bombing
Publisert: 30.1.2023 -
Invention of the MP3
Publisert: 27.1.2023 -
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Publisert: 26.1.2023 -
Smolensk air disaster
Publisert: 25.1.2023 -
Japanese death row guard
Publisert: 24.1.2023 -
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Publisert: 23.1.2023 -
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
Publisert: 20.1.2023 -
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Publisert: 19.1.2023 -
Kosovo’s house schools
Publisert: 18.1.2023
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.
