Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Publisert: 16.6.2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Publisert: 13.6.2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Publisert: 12.6.2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Publisert: 11.6.2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Publisert: 10.6.2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Publisert: 9.6.2025 -
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Publisert: 6.6.2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publisert: 5.6.2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publisert: 4.6.2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publisert: 3.6.2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Publisert: 2.6.2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Publisert: 30.5.2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Publisert: 29.5.2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Publisert: 28.5.2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Publisert: 27.5.2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Publisert: 26.5.2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Publisert: 23.5.2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Publisert: 22.5.2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Publisert: 21.5.2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Publisert: 20.5.2025
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.
