Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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First women’s minister in Iran
Publisert: 22.11.2022 -
The invention of the seat belt
Publisert: 21.11.2022 -
Qatar's first female published author
Publisert: 18.11.2022 -
First Emirati female teacher
Publisert: 17.11.2022 -
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Publisert: 16.11.2022 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Publisert: 15.11.2022 -
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Publisert: 14.11.2022 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Publisert: 11.11.2022 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Publisert: 10.11.2022 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Publisert: 9.11.2022 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Publisert: 8.11.2022 -
Polynesian Panthers
Publisert: 7.11.2022 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Publisert: 4.11.2022 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Publisert: 3.11.2022 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Publisert: 2.11.2022 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Publisert: 1.11.2022 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Publisert: 31.10.2022 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Publisert: 28.10.2022 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Publisert: 27.10.2022 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Publisert: 26.10.2022
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.
