Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Egypt's first democratic presidential election
Publisert: 23.6.2022 -
The killing of Vincent Chin
Publisert: 22.6.2022 -
Robot Surgeon
Publisert: 21.6.2022 -
India's surrogacy capital
Publisert: 20.6.2022 -
Cambodia war crimes
Publisert: 17.6.2022 -
James Joyce and Ulysses
Publisert: 16.6.2022 -
New York's LGBT High School
Publisert: 15.6.2022 -
Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
Publisert: 14.6.2022 -
Holy Cross school dispute
Publisert: 13.6.2022 -
The Gulabi Gang
Publisert: 10.6.2022 -
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Publisert: 9.6.2022 -
Saving Gabon's rainforest
Publisert: 8.6.2022 -
The Diary of Anne Frank
Publisert: 7.6.2022 -
The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Publisert: 6.6.2022 -
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Publisert: 3.6.2022 -
Sarin attack in Syria
Publisert: 2.6.2022 -
Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
Publisert: 1.6.2022 -
Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
Publisert: 31.5.2022 -
The attack on Lod Airport
Publisert: 30.5.2022 -
Georgia O'Keeffe
Publisert: 27.5.2022
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.