Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Sharpeville massacre
Publisert: 4.3.2021 -
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
Publisert: 3.3.2021 -
Refugee Island
Publisert: 2.3.2021 -
The world's deepest dive 11km down
Publisert: 1.3.2021 -
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
Publisert: 25.2.2021 -
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Publisert: 24.2.2021 -
Ireland's bank bailout
Publisert: 23.2.2021 -
Acid rain
Publisert: 22.2.2021 -
Mary Wilson
Publisert: 19.2.2021 -
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
Publisert: 18.2.2021 -
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Publisert: 17.2.2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
Publisert: 16.2.2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
Publisert: 15.2.2021 -
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
Publisert: 12.2.2021 -
A Ghanaian nurse's story
Publisert: 11.2.2021 -
The paper that helped the homeless
Publisert: 10.2.2021 -
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
Publisert: 9.2.2021 -
Francis Bacon in the archives
Publisert: 9.2.2021 -
DES Daughters
Publisert: 8.2.2021 -
General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
Publisert: 5.2.2021
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.
