Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
Publisert: 6.10.2021 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Publisert: 5.10.2021 -
London's first black policeman
Publisert: 4.10.2021 -
The Tanker War
Publisert: 1.10.2021 -
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
Publisert: 30.9.2021 -
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
Publisert: 29.9.2021 -
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Publisert: 28.9.2021 -
The rise of the Taliban
Publisert: 27.9.2021 -
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
Publisert: 24.9.2021 -
James Bond on screen
Publisert: 23.9.2021 -
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Publisert: 22.9.2021 -
Mexico's miracle water
Publisert: 21.9.2021 -
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
Publisert: 20.9.2021 -
The Peter Principle
Publisert: 17.9.2021 -
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
Publisert: 16.9.2021 -
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
Publisert: 15.9.2021 -
The lost king of France
Publisert: 14.9.2021 -
The Attica prison rebellion
Publisert: 13.9.2021 -
9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
Publisert: 10.9.2021 -
America attacks Afghanistan
Publisert: 9.9.2021
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.
