Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Publisert: 20.12.2022 -
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Publisert: 19.12.2022 -
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Publisert: 16.12.2022 -
Soviet fashionista
Publisert: 15.12.2022 -
Returning to District Six
Publisert: 14.12.2022 -
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Publisert: 13.12.2022 -
Mongolian revolution
Publisert: 12.12.2022 -
Creating Teletubbies
Publisert: 9.12.2022 -
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
Publisert: 8.12.2022 -
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publisert: 7.12.2022 -
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Publisert: 6.12.2022 -
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Publisert: 5.12.2022 -
Miss World protest
Publisert: 2.12.2022 -
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Publisert: 1.12.2022 -
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
Publisert: 30.11.2022 -
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Publisert: 29.11.2022 -
Mombasa terror attacks
Publisert: 28.11.2022 -
How cat's eyes were invented
Publisert: 25.11.2022 -
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
Publisert: 24.11.2022 -
When Sweden’s roads went right
Publisert: 23.11.2022
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.
