Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1452 Episoder
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Mexico's female serial killer
Publisert: 6.4.2021 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Publisert: 5.4.2021 -
Black Jesus
Publisert: 2.4.2021 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Publisert: 1.4.2021 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Publisert: 31.3.2021 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Publisert: 30.3.2021 -
Anorexia nervosa
Publisert: 29.3.2021 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Publisert: 25.3.2021 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Publisert: 24.3.2021 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Publisert: 23.3.2021 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Publisert: 22.3.2021 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Publisert: 19.3.2021 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Publisert: 18.3.2021 -
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
Publisert: 17.3.2021 -
Paris is Burning
Publisert: 15.3.2021 -
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Publisert: 11.3.2021 -
Jane: The underground abortion network
Publisert: 10.3.2021 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Publisert: 9.3.2021 -
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Publisert: 8.3.2021 -
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
Publisert: 5.3.2021
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.