Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Publisert: 17.10.2022 -
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Publisert: 14.10.2022 -
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Publisert: 12.10.2022 -
Disney animators' strike
Publisert: 11.10.2022 -
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
Publisert: 10.10.2022 -
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
Publisert: 7.10.2022 -
The Harder They Come
Publisert: 6.10.2022 -
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
Publisert: 5.10.2022 -
The release of Gilad Shalit
Publisert: 4.10.2022 -
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Publisert: 3.10.2022 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Publisert: 30.9.2022 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Publisert: 29.9.2022 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Publisert: 28.9.2022 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Publisert: 26.9.2022 -
Festival of Light
Publisert: 23.9.2022 -
Iran-Iraq War begins
Publisert: 22.9.2022 -
The first Pope to visit Africa
Publisert: 21.9.2022 -
Ancient fossils give new insight
Publisert: 20.9.2022 -
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Publisert: 19.9.2022 -
The last days of Queen Victoria
Publisert: 16.9.2022
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.
