Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The World Festival of Black Arts
Publisert: 26.5.2022 -
The museum of banned Russian art
Publisert: 25.5.2022 -
The last days of Frida Kahlo
Publisert: 24.5.2022 -
Meeting Picasso
Publisert: 23.5.2022 -
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
Publisert: 20.5.2022 -
Chasing the Marcos millions
Publisert: 20.5.2022 -
Shanghai at War
Publisert: 19.5.2022 -
The first McDonald's in Moscow
Publisert: 18.5.2022 -
People Power in the Philippines
Publisert: 16.5.2022 -
The war in Transnistria
Publisert: 13.5.2022 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Publisert: 11.5.2022 -
China opens up to capitalism
Publisert: 10.5.2022 -
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Publisert: 9.5.2022 -
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Publisert: 6.5.2022
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.
