Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The first Indian to win Miss World
Publisert: 15.11.2019 -
The Love Canal disaster
Publisert: 14.11.2019 -
The demolition of the Babri Masjid
Publisert: 13.11.2019 -
Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail
Publisert: 12.11.2019 -
Memories of Wilfred Owen
Publisert: 11.11.2019 -
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall
Publisert: 8.11.2019 -
The Bhagalpur blindings
Publisert: 7.11.2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Publisert: 6.11.2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Publisert: 5.11.2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Publisert: 4.11.2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Publisert: 1.11.2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Publisert: 31.10.2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Publisert: 30.10.2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Publisert: 29.10.2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Publisert: 28.10.2019 -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Publisert: 25.10.2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Publisert: 24.10.2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Publisert: 23.10.2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Publisert: 22.10.2019 -
The legalisation of Solidarity
Publisert: 21.10.2019
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.
