Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
Publisert: 13.10.2020 -
The launch of CNN
Publisert: 12.10.2020 -
The Battle of Lewisham
Publisert: 9.10.2020 -
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Publisert: 8.10.2020 -
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Publisert: 7.10.2020 -
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Publisert: 6.10.2020 -
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
Publisert: 5.10.2020 -
The house by the lake
Publisert: 2.10.2020 -
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Publisert: 1.10.2020 -
The founding of Google
Publisert: 30.9.2020 -
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
Publisert: 29.9.2020 -
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Publisert: 28.9.2020 -
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
Publisert: 25.9.2020 -
Blackwater killed my son
Publisert: 24.9.2020
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.
