Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Leaflet Bomber
Publisert: 1.8.2022 -
The Tangshan Earthquake
Publisert: 28.7.2022 -
Inventing nicotine patches
Publisert: 27.7.2022 -
The Surkov leaks
Publisert: 26.7.2022 -
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Publisert: 25.7.2022 -
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
Publisert: 22.7.2022 -
The Soviet James Bond
Publisert: 21.7.2022 -
Who shot JR?
Publisert: 20.7.2022 -
Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
Publisert: 19.7.2022 -
The school for telenovela stars
Publisert: 18.7.2022 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Publisert: 15.7.2022 -
The man who invented the Pill
Publisert: 14.7.2022 -
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Publisert: 13.7.2022 -
Poland's strict abortion law
Publisert: 12.7.2022 -
How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
Publisert: 11.7.2022 -
The US’s first gay election candidate
Publisert: 8.7.2022 -
How the smear test was invented
Publisert: 7.7.2022 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Publisert: 6.7.2022 -
Japanese university student riots
Publisert: 5.7.2022 -
The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
Publisert: 4.7.2022
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.
