Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Publisert: 14.2.2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Publisert: 13.2.2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Publisert: 12.2.2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Publisert: 11.2.2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war
Publisert: 10.2.2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Publisert: 7.2.2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Publisert: 6.2.2025 -
Cuban blindness
Publisert: 5.2.2025 -
Oradour massacre
Publisert: 4.2.2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Publisert: 3.2.2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Publisert: 31.1.2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Publisert: 30.1.2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Publisert: 29.1.2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Publisert: 28.1.2025 -
The Milltown Cemetery attack
Publisert: 27.1.2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Publisert: 24.1.2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Publisert: 23.1.2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Publisert: 22.1.2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Publisert: 21.1.2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Publisert: 20.1.2025
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.
