Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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South Korea's economic miracle
Publisert: 23.6.2020 -
The New Deal
Publisert: 22.6.2020 -
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
Publisert: 19.6.2020 -
The friendship train
Publisert: 18.6.2020 -
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Publisert: 17.6.2020 -
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Publisert: 16.6.2020 -
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
Publisert: 15.6.2020 -
Three Strikes Law
Publisert: 12.6.2020 -
Rodney King and the LA riots
Publisert: 11.6.2020 -
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
Publisert: 10.6.2020 -
The 16th Street church bombing
Publisert: 9.6.2020 -
Brown v the Board of Education
Publisert: 8.6.2020 -
The portable defibrillator
Publisert: 5.6.2020 -
The origin of the WHO
Publisert: 4.6.2020 -
How Christo wrapped the Reichstag
Publisert: 3.6.2020 -
The Zanzibar Revolution
Publisert: 2.6.2020 -
The start of eco-tourism
Publisert: 1.6.2020 -
Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer
Publisert: 29.5.2020 -
Winston Churchill's doctor
Publisert: 28.5.2020 -
The Gwangju massacre
Publisert: 27.5.2020
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.
