Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
Publisert: 2.8.2021 -
The Tsunami and Fukushima
Publisert: 30.7.2021 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Publisert: 29.7.2021 -
The soldier who never surrendered
Publisert: 28.7.2021 -
The birth of Karaoke
Publisert: 27.7.2021 -
Japan's Bullet Train
Publisert: 26.7.2021 -
When war came to Darfur
Publisert: 22.7.2021 -
Surviving Norway's day of terror
Publisert: 21.7.2021 -
The Battle of Gondar
Publisert: 20.7.2021 -
Domestic violence in Brazil
Publisert: 19.7.2021 -
England's summer of riots
Publisert: 16.7.2021 -
When the Taliban took Kabul
Publisert: 15.7.2021 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Publisert: 14.7.2021 -
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Publisert: 13.7.2021 -
The race for the jet engine
Publisert: 12.7.2021 -
The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Publisert: 9.7.2021 -
The first World Romani Congress
Publisert: 8.7.2021 -
The famine in North Korea
Publisert: 7.7.2021 -
Britain's wartime gold
Publisert: 6.7.2021 -
Cuba's blindness epidemic
Publisert: 5.7.2021
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.