Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
Buddhists and death row
Publisert: 5.1.2021 -
The oldest song in the world
Publisert: 4.1.2021 -
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas
Publisert: 1.1.2021 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Publisert: 31.12.2020 -
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
Publisert: 30.12.2020 -
The building of the Aswan Dam
Publisert: 29.12.2020 -
UNESCO and race and tolerance
Publisert: 28.12.2020 -
It's a Wonderful Life
Publisert: 25.12.2020 -
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Publisert: 24.12.2020 -
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
Publisert: 23.12.2020 -
The Sound of Music
Publisert: 22.12.2020 -
The Great Dictator
Publisert: 21.12.2020 -
The GDR's Namibian children
Publisert: 18.12.2020 -
The blockade of Gibraltar
Publisert: 17.12.2020
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.
