Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Adrift for 76 days
Publisert: 29.7.2020 -
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
Publisert: 28.7.2020 -
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Publisert: 27.7.2020 -
The fastest vaccine ever developed
Publisert: 24.7.2020 -
The first safe house for Afghan women
Publisert: 23.7.2020 -
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
Publisert: 22.7.2020 -
The Million Man March
Publisert: 21.7.2020 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Publisert: 20.7.2020 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Publisert: 17.7.2020 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Publisert: 16.7.2020 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Publisert: 15.7.2020 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Publisert: 14.7.2020 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Publisert: 13.7.2020 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Publisert: 10.7.2020 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Publisert: 9.7.2020 -
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
Publisert: 8.7.2020 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Publisert: 7.7.2020 -
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
Publisert: 6.7.2020 -
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
Publisert: 3.7.2020 -
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Publisert: 2.7.2020
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.
