Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service

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1416 Episoder
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Being a Chinese Muslim
Publisert: 3.4.2020 -
The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
Publisert: 2.4.2020 -
Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
Publisert: 1.4.2020 -
The trembling giant
Publisert: 31.3.2020 -
Britain's first woman judge
Publisert: 30.3.2020 -
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Publisert: 27.3.2020 -
The Cheonan sinking
Publisert: 26.3.2020 -
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
Publisert: 25.3.2020 -
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
Publisert: 24.3.2020 -
The Chinese cure for malaria
Publisert: 23.3.2020 -
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Publisert: 20.3.2020 -
The 'I Love You' computer virus
Publisert: 20.3.2020 -
The Major and the VW Beetle
Publisert: 20.3.2020 -
Red Hollywood
Publisert: 18.3.2020 -
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
Publisert: 17.3.2020 -
Marburg virus
Publisert: 13.3.2020 -
The SARS epidemic
Publisert: 12.3.2020 -
The polio vaccine
Publisert: 11.3.2020 -
The Ebola virus
Publisert: 10.3.2020 -
The 'Spanish' flu
Publisert: 9.3.2020
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.