Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The handshake in Space
Publisert: 7.4.2022 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Publisert: 6.4.2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Publisert: 5.4.2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Publisert: 1.4.2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Publisert: 31.3.2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Publisert: 30.3.2022 -
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
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.
