Witness History
En podkast av BBC World Service
1518 Episoder
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The Milltown Cemetery attack
Publisert: 27.1.2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Publisert: 24.1.2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Publisert: 23.1.2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Publisert: 22.1.2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Publisert: 21.1.2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Publisert: 20.1.2025 -
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Publisert: 17.1.2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Publisert: 16.1.2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Publisert: 15.1.2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Publisert: 14.1.2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Publisert: 13.1.2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Publisert: 10.1.2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Publisert: 9.1.2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Publisert: 8.1.2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Publisert: 7.1.2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Publisert: 2.1.2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Publisert: 1.1.2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Publisert: 31.12.2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Publisert: 30.12.2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Publisert: 27.12.2024
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.
