Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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Black GIs during World War Two
Publisert: 16.12.2019 -
The attack on India's parliament
Publisert: 13.12.2019 -
The killing of Amadou Diallo
Publisert: 12.12.2019 -
The IRA siege at Balcombe Street
Publisert: 10.12.2019 -
The battle of the Louvre pyramid
Publisert: 9.12.2019 -
The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro
Publisert: 6.12.2019 -
Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison
Publisert: 5.12.2019 -
The British sculptor who won over the world
Publisert: 4.12.2019 -
Shackleton
Publisert: 3.12.2019 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Publisert: 2.12.2019 -
The first confirmed case of HIV in America
Publisert: 29.11.2019 -
Handing back Uluru
Publisert: 28.11.2019 -
From cakes to computers
Publisert: 27.11.2019 -
India's economic revolution
Publisert: 26.11.2019 -
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
Publisert: 25.11.2019 -
Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter
Publisert: 22.11.2019 -
The man who got Delhi on track
Publisert: 21.11.2019 -
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Publisert: 20.11.2019 -
The 'Woman in Gold'
Publisert: 19.11.2019 -
The first Tasers
Publisert: 18.11.2019
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.
