Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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British reality TV is born
Publisert: 16.12.2020 -
The birth of Bangladesh
Publisert: 15.12.2020 -
White Christmas
Publisert: 14.12.2020 -
The return of the beaver
Publisert: 11.12.2020 -
Neanderthal cave mystery
Publisert: 10.12.2020 -
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Publisert: 9.12.2020 -
The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'
Publisert: 8.12.2020 -
The life and work of Chester Himes
Publisert: 7.12.2020 -
The V1 flying bomb
Publisert: 4.12.2020 -
The slaves who defeated Napoleon
Publisert: 2.12.2020 -
France's Muslim headscarf ban
Publisert: 2.12.2020 -
Iraq's pioneering feminist
Publisert: 1.12.2020 -
How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991
Publisert: 30.11.2020 -
The fight for disabled rights in the UK
Publisert: 27.11.2020 -
Rwanda at the Paralympics
Publisert: 26.11.2020 -
India's campaign for disability rights
Publisert: 25.11.2020 -
Britain's little blue disability car
Publisert: 24.11.2020 -
Helen Keller
Publisert: 23.11.2020 -
When the Egyptian president went to Israel
Publisert: 20.11.2020 -
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Publisert: 19.11.2020
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.
