Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Fall of Madrid
Publisert: 11.6.2021 -
The elections that Hamas won
Publisert: 10.6.2021 -
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
Publisert: 9.6.2021 -
Tunisia’s legal brothels
Publisert: 8.6.2021 -
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Publisert: 7.6.2021 -
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Publisert: 4.6.2021 -
Afghanistan's poppy problem
Publisert: 3.6.2021 -
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
Publisert: 2.6.2021 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Publisert: 1.6.2021 -
The war on drugs
Publisert: 31.5.2021 -
The Tulsa Race Massacre
Publisert: 28.5.2021 -
Rock concert for Chernobyl
Publisert: 27.5.2021 -
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Publisert: 26.5.2021 -
The first Arab woman pilot
Publisert: 25.5.2021 -
The strike that shocked India
Publisert: 24.5.2021 -
Fighting forced marriage in war
Publisert: 21.5.2021 -
Saving the world's wetlands
Publisert: 20.5.2021 -
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Publisert: 18.5.2021 -
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
Publisert: 17.5.2021 -
China's Democracy Wall
Publisert: 14.5.2021
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.
