Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
Publisert: 15.9.2020 -
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
Publisert: 14.9.2020 -
Why the US rejected universal healthcare
Publisert: 11.9.2020 -
Banning alcohol in an Indian state
Publisert: 10.9.2020 -
The birth of Reddit
Publisert: 9.9.2020 -
The Dawson's Field hijacking
Publisert: 9.9.2020 -
Haiti's cholera outbreak
Publisert: 8.9.2020 -
Care in the Community
Publisert: 4.9.2020 -
The Cape Town bombings
Publisert: 3.9.2020 -
The birth of the Sony Walkman
Publisert: 2.9.2020 -
Flying through a volcano
Publisert: 1.9.2020 -
Inventing James Bond
Publisert: 31.8.2020 -
Who has the right to vote in America?
Publisert: 28.8.2020 -
St Kilda
Publisert: 27.8.2020 -
Occupy Wall Street
Publisert: 26.8.2020 -
America's first woman combat pilot
Publisert: 25.8.2020 -
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Publisert: 24.8.2020 -
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Publisert: 21.8.2020 -
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
Publisert: 20.8.2020 -
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
Publisert: 20.8.2020
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.
