Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1472 Episoder
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Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Publisert: 18.12.2024 -
Surviving Andes plane crash
Publisert: 17.12.2024 -
Peshawar school massacre
Publisert: 16.12.2024 -
The birth of reggaeton
Publisert: 13.12.2024 -
The handover of the Panama Canal
Publisert: 12.12.2024 -
The Purple Heart Warriors
Publisert: 11.12.2024 -
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
Publisert: 9.12.2024 -
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Publisert: 6.12.2024 -
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
Publisert: 5.12.2024 -
The ‘Three Marias’
Publisert: 4.12.2024 -
The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
Publisert: 3.12.2024 -
Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
Publisert: 2.12.2024 -
The end of the US HIV travel ban
Publisert: 29.11.2024 -
The deepest man-made hole in the world
Publisert: 28.11.2024 -
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Publisert: 27.11.2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Publisert: 26.11.2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Publisert: 25.11.2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Publisert: 22.11.2024 -
Lord of the Flies
Publisert: 21.11.2024 -
Handover of Macau
Publisert: 20.11.2024
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 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.
