Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
Publisert: 10.2.2020 -
The release of Nelson Mandela
Publisert: 7.2.2020 -
The Native American casino boom in the US
Publisert: 6.2.2020 -
Witnessing the birth of a new language
Publisert: 5.2.2020 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Publisert: 4.2.2020 -
London's first black policeman
Publisert: 3.2.2020 -
The Treaty of Rome
Publisert: 31.1.2020 -
The first self-made female millionaire
Publisert: 30.1.2020 -
The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson
Publisert: 29.1.2020 -
Reforming India's rape laws
Publisert: 28.1.2020 -
The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family
Publisert: 27.1.2020 -
The frozen zoo
Publisert: 24.1.2020 -
The discovery of whalesong
Publisert: 23.1.2020 -
Silent Spring: A book that changed the world
Publisert: 22.1.2020 -
How the dodo died out
Publisert: 21.1.2020 -
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Publisert: 20.1.2020 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Publisert: 17.1.2020 -
The story of George Stinney Jr
Publisert: 16.1.2020 -
The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group
Publisert: 15.1.2020 -
Storming the Stasi HQ
Publisert: 14.1.2020
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.
