Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The first Emirati female teacher
Publisert: 3.2.2022 -
The day the world looked up
Publisert: 2.2.2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Publisert: 1.2.2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Publisert: 28.1.2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Publisert: 27.1.2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Publisert: 26.1.2022 -
Bloody Sunday
Publisert: 25.1.2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Publisert: 24.1.2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Publisert: 21.1.2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Publisert: 20.1.2022 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Publisert: 20.1.2022 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Publisert: 17.1.2022 -
The first silicone breast implants
Publisert: 14.1.2022 -
Costa Concordia
Publisert: 13.1.2022 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Publisert: 12.1.2022 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Publisert: 11.1.2022 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Publisert: 10.1.2022 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Publisert: 6.1.2022 -
Marcel Proust
Publisert: 5.1.2022 -
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Publisert: 4.1.2022
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.
