Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Mexico's female serial killer
Publisert: 6.4.2021 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Publisert: 5.4.2021 -
Black Jesus
Publisert: 2.4.2021 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Publisert: 1.4.2021 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Publisert: 31.3.2021 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Publisert: 30.3.2021 -
Anorexia nervosa
Publisert: 29.3.2021 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Publisert: 25.3.2021 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Publisert: 24.3.2021 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Publisert: 23.3.2021 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Publisert: 22.3.2021 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Publisert: 19.3.2021 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Publisert: 18.3.2021 -
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
Publisert: 17.3.2021
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.
