Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Publisert: 10.11.2020 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Publisert: 9.11.2020 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Publisert: 6.11.2020 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Publisert: 5.11.2020 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Publisert: 4.11.2020 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Publisert: 3.11.2020 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Publisert: 2.11.2020 -
With the president on 9/11
Publisert: 30.10.2020 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Publisert: 29.10.2020 -
The Watergate scandal
Publisert: 28.10.2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Publisert: 27.10.2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Publisert: 26.10.2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Publisert: 23.10.2020 -
The missing victims of apartheid
Publisert: 22.10.2020 -
The Cutter Incident
Publisert: 21.10.2020 -
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Publisert: 20.10.2020 -
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Publisert: 19.10.2020 -
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Publisert: 16.10.2020 -
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
Publisert: 15.10.2020 -
The last of the Kazakh herders
Publisert: 14.10.2020
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.
