Witness History

En podkast av BBC World Service

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1416 Episoder

  1. The creation of Greenwich Mean Time

    Publisert: 28.10.2024
  2. My dad created Dungeons & Dragons

    Publisert: 25.10.2024
  3. Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal

    Publisert: 24.10.2024
  4. Ethiopia's 1984 famine

    Publisert: 23.10.2024
  5. I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica

    Publisert: 22.10.2024
  6. The fight to stop skin lightening in India

    Publisert: 21.10.2024
  7. Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt

    Publisert: 18.10.2024
  8. Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings

    Publisert: 17.10.2024
  9. Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child

    Publisert: 16.10.2024
  10. The Rose Revolution in Georgia

    Publisert: 15.10.2024
  11. The Sunflower Movement

    Publisert: 14.10.2024
  12. 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Publisert: 11.10.2024
  13. How the QR code was invented

    Publisert: 10.10.2024
  14. The world's first general purpose electronic computer

    Publisert: 9.10.2024
  15. WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

    Publisert: 8.10.2024
  16. Eliza: When chatbots started

    Publisert: 7.10.2024
  17. The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

    Publisert: 4.10.2024
  18. The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

    Publisert: 3.10.2024
  19. South Africa’s nuclear weapons

    Publisert: 2.10.2024
  20. Cambodia war crimes

    Publisert: 1.10.2024

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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.

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