Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
China's trailblazing foreign students
Publisert: 2.7.2021 -
The Chinese Communist Party
Publisert: 1.7.2021 -
The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
Publisert: 29.6.2021 -
Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings
Publisert: 28.6.2021 -
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Publisert: 25.6.2021 -
China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
Publisert: 24.6.2021 -
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
Publisert: 23.6.2021 -
Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
Publisert: 22.6.2021 -
The Stonewall Inn
Publisert: 21.6.2021 -
China's 'Economic Miracle'
Publisert: 18.6.2021 -
The Trabant
Publisert: 17.6.2021 -
The police rape interview that shocked Britain
Publisert: 16.6.2021 -
Mindfulness for the masses
Publisert: 14.6.2021 -
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
Publisert: 14.6.2021
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.
