Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The enduring legend of Fu Manchu
Publisert: 3.11.2021 -
Judgement at Nuremberg
Publisert: 2.11.2021 -
The miracle of walking
Publisert: 1.11.2021 -
Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers
Publisert: 29.10.2021 -
The child climate activist of the 1990s
Publisert: 28.10.2021 -
How the world woke up to climate change
Publisert: 27.10.2021 -
The world's first environment conference
Publisert: 26.10.2021 -
Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'
Publisert: 25.10.2021 -
Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
Publisert: 22.10.2021 -
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Publisert: 21.10.2021 -
Polish refugees in Africa
Publisert: 20.10.2021 -
The mysterious death of Samora Machel
Publisert: 19.10.2021 -
The first transgender minister in the Church of England
Publisert: 18.10.2021 -
The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist
Publisert: 15.10.2021 -
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Publisert: 14.10.2021 -
The story of 'Baby Jessica'
Publisert: 13.10.2021 -
Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally
Publisert: 12.10.2021 -
Winning the Arabic Booker prize
Publisert: 11.10.2021 -
Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer
Publisert: 8.10.2021 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Publisert: 7.10.2021
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.
