Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Publisert: 14.3.2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Publisert: 13.3.2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Publisert: 12.3.2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Publisert: 11.3.2025 -
The invention of GPS
Publisert: 10.3.2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Publisert: 7.3.2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Publisert: 6.3.2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Publisert: 5.3.2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Publisert: 4.3.2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Publisert: 3.3.2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Publisert: 28.2.2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Publisert: 27.2.2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Publisert: 26.2.2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Publisert: 25.2.2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Publisert: 24.2.2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Publisert: 21.2.2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Publisert: 20.2.2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Publisert: 19.2.2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Publisert: 18.2.2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Publisert: 17.2.2025
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.
