Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The IRA hunger strikes
Publisert: 4.5.2021 -
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
Publisert: 3.5.2021 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Publisert: 30.4.2021 -
The battle of Tora Bora
Publisert: 29.4.2021 -
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
Publisert: 28.4.2021 -
Meeting Osama bin Laden
Publisert: 27.4.2021 -
The siege of Mecca
Publisert: 26.4.2021 -
The first space shuttle mission
Publisert: 23.4.2021 -
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
Publisert: 22.4.2021 -
The Raymond Davis Incident
Publisert: 21.4.2021 -
The return of Blue Lake
Publisert: 20.4.2021 -
The Eichmann trial
Publisert: 19.4.2021 -
China's 'Kingdom of women'
Publisert: 16.4.2021 -
The vultures saved from extinction
Publisert: 15.4.2021 -
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
Publisert: 14.4.2021 -
How a worm helped explain human development
Publisert: 13.4.2021 -
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Publisert: 12.4.2021 -
Discovering the Jet Stream
Publisert: 9.4.2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Publisert: 8.4.2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Publisert: 7.4.2021
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.
