Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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With the president on 9/11
Publisert: 8.9.2021 -
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
Publisert: 7.9.2021 -
The warnings before 9/11
Publisert: 6.9.2021 -
North Korea's founding father
Publisert: 3.9.2021 -
The businessman who defied the Mafia
Publisert: 2.9.2021 -
Surviving the fall of Saigon
Publisert: 1.9.2021 -
The first modern electric car
Publisert: 31.8.2021 -
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Publisert: 27.8.2021 -
Syria's rebel poet
Publisert: 26.8.2021 -
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Publisert: 25.8.2021 -
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Publisert: 24.8.2021 -
John Maynard Keynes
Publisert: 23.8.2021 -
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Publisert: 20.8.2021 -
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
Publisert: 19.8.2021 -
India's secret freedom radio
Publisert: 18.8.2021 -
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
Publisert: 17.8.2021 -
The man who coined the term genocide
Publisert: 16.8.2021 -
Inside an East German jail
Publisert: 13.8.2021 -
East Germany's nudists
Publisert: 12.8.2021 -
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Publisert: 11.8.2021
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.
