Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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India's onion election
Publisert: 26.8.2022 -
The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard
Publisert: 25.8.2022 -
The Gay Games
Publisert: 24.8.2022 -
Hundreds die in Darayya
Publisert: 23.8.2022 -
Bulgaria's cash crisis
Publisert: 22.8.2022 -
The Bard of Bengal
Publisert: 19.8.2022 -
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisert: 18.8.2022 -
The last Viceroy of India
Publisert: 17.8.2022 -
India's Partition - Part Two
Publisert: 16.8.2022 -
India's Partition - Part One
Publisert: 15.8.2022 -
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Publisert: 12.8.2022 -
Discovering Hale Bopp
Publisert: 11.8.2022 -
Indonesia's forest fires
Publisert: 10.8.2022 -
Sweden’s pronoun battle
Publisert: 9.8.2022 -
The resignation of President Nixon
Publisert: 8.8.2022 -
The return of Asians to Uganda
Publisert: 5.8.2022 -
The city shaped by Ugandan Asians
Publisert: 4.8.2022 -
The exodus of Asians from Uganda
Publisert: 3.8.2022 -
When Asians were forced to leave Kenya
Publisert: 2.8.2022 -
Why Asians came to Uganda
Publisert: 1.8.2022
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.