Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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South Africa and Aids drugs
Publisert: 2.12.2021 -
AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids
Publisert: 1.12.2021 -
The early days of HIV/Aids
Publisert: 30.11.2021 -
The Aids 'patient zero' myth
Publisert: 29.11.2021 -
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Publisert: 26.11.2021 -
Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’
Publisert: 25.11.2021 -
The doctor who helped her mother to die
Publisert: 24.11.2021 -
Europe's last smallpox epidemic
Publisert: 23.11.2021 -
The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt
Publisert: 22.11.2021 -
Sudan's October Revolution
Publisert: 18.11.2021 -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Publisert: 17.11.2021 -
The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic
Publisert: 16.11.2021 -
Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
Publisert: 15.11.2021 -
Shoot: A milestone in performance art
Publisert: 15.11.2021 -
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Publisert: 11.11.2021 -
Spying in Berlin
Publisert: 10.11.2021 -
Chanel No. 5
Publisert: 9.11.2021 -
Britain's Black Schools
Publisert: 8.11.2021 -
When Eritrea silenced its critics
Publisert: 5.11.2021 -
The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
Publisert: 4.11.2021
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.
