Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The death of Trayvon Martin
Publisert: 24.2.2022 -
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
Publisert: 23.2.2022 -
Nixon in China
Publisert: 22.2.2022 -
The first sex worker strike
Publisert: 21.2.2022 -
The world's first civil union
Publisert: 18.2.2022 -
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
Publisert: 17.2.2022 -
The Berlin Patient
Publisert: 16.2.2022 -
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
Publisert: 15.2.2022 -
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
Publisert: 14.2.2022 -
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
Publisert: 11.2.2022 -
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Publisert: 10.2.2022 -
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
Publisert: 9.2.2022 -
The invention of Google Maps
Publisert: 8.2.2022 -
The demise of the Soviet Union
Publisert: 7.2.2022
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 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.
