Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The death of Hitler
Publisert: 5.5.2020 -
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
Publisert: 4.5.2020 -
Hiroshima's trees of hope
Publisert: 1.5.2020 -
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
Publisert: 30.4.2020 -
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
Publisert: 29.4.2020 -
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
Publisert: 28.4.2020 -
Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia
Publisert: 27.4.2020 -
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
Publisert: 24.4.2020 -
The Brompton Manley Ventilator
Publisert: 23.4.2020 -
Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'
Publisert: 22.4.2020 -
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Publisert: 21.4.2020 -
The Deepwater Horizon disaster
Publisert: 20.4.2020 -
Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
Publisert: 17.4.2020 -
A space crash
Publisert: 17.4.2020 -
When Skylab fell to Earth
Publisert: 16.4.2020 -
The last men on the Moon
Publisert: 15.4.2020 -
The first iPhone
Publisert: 14.4.2020 -
Nasa's female aquanauts
Publisert: 14.4.2020 -
The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
Publisert: 10.4.2020 -
Six Degrees: The first online social network
Publisert: 8.4.2020
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.
