Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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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 -
The first modern asthma inhaler
Publisert: 19.8.2020 -
The lost King of England
Publisert: 18.8.2020 -
Surviving Saddam
Publisert: 17.8.2020 -
The invention of the modern ventilator
Publisert: 14.8.2020 -
Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
Publisert: 13.8.2020 -
Beirut's Hotel War
Publisert: 12.8.2020 -
Bremen’s Elephant Statue
Publisert: 11.8.2020 -
Radar and World War Two
Publisert: 10.8.2020 -
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Publisert: 6.8.2020 -
The battle of Midway
Publisert: 5.8.2020 -
The internment of Japanese Americans
Publisert: 4.8.2020 -
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Publisert: 3.8.2020 -
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Publisert: 31.7.2020 -
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
Publisert: 30.7.2020
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.
