Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service

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1416 Episoder
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The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Publisert: 28.10.2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Publisert: 25.10.2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Publisert: 24.10.2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Publisert: 23.10.2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Publisert: 22.10.2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Publisert: 21.10.2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Publisert: 18.10.2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Publisert: 17.10.2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Publisert: 16.10.2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Publisert: 15.10.2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Publisert: 14.10.2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Publisert: 11.10.2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Publisert: 10.10.2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Publisert: 9.10.2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Publisert: 8.10.2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Publisert: 7.10.2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Publisert: 4.10.2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Publisert: 3.10.2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Publisert: 2.10.2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Publisert: 1.10.2024
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.