Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1452 Episoder
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Banksy’s first street art mural
Publisert: 29.3.2022 -
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Publisert: 28.3.2022 -
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Publisert: 25.3.2022 -
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
Publisert: 24.3.2022 -
The Budapest Memorandum
Publisert: 22.3.2022 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Publisert: 21.3.2022 -
The Shard
Publisert: 18.3.2022 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Publisert: 17.3.2022 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Publisert: 16.3.2022 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Publisert: 15.3.2022 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Publisert: 14.3.2022 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Publisert: 11.3.2022 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Publisert: 10.3.2022 -
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Publisert: 9.3.2022 -
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
Publisert: 4.3.2022 -
The takeover of NTV in Russia
Publisert: 3.3.2022 -
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
Publisert: 2.3.2022 -
Putin's war in Chechnya
Publisert: 1.3.2022 -
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Publisert: 28.2.2022 -
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
Publisert: 25.2.2022
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.