Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Drugs in the Vietnam War
Publisert: 4.2.2021 -
The Burma uprising of 1988
Publisert: 3.2.2021 -
The Moscow State Circus
Publisert: 2.2.2021 -
The first Eurostar from England to France
Publisert: 1.2.2021 -
The anthem of the Arab Spring
Publisert: 29.1.2021 -
Libya's Arab uprising
Publisert: 28.1.2021 -
Yemen's 2011 uprising
Publisert: 27.1.2021 -
Syria in the Arab Spring
Publisert: 26.1.2021 -
Egypt's Facebook Girl
Publisert: 25.1.2021 -
Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs
Publisert: 22.1.2021 -
Kenya's pioneering publisher
Publisert: 21.1.2021 -
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
Publisert: 20.1.2021 -
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Publisert: 19.1.2021 -
Landing on Titan
Publisert: 14.1.2021 -
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Publisert: 13.1.2021 -
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
Publisert: 12.1.2021 -
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Publisert: 11.1.2021 -
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Publisert: 8.1.2021 -
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
Publisert: 7.1.2021 -
The 'strike' in space
Publisert: 6.1.2021
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.
