Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1472 Episodio
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Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Pubblicato: 04/07/2025 -
Back to the Future
Pubblicato: 03/07/2025 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Pubblicato: 02/07/2025 -
Cecil the lion
Pubblicato: 01/07/2025 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Pubblicato: 30/06/2025 -
Italian happiness trains
Pubblicato: 27/06/2025 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Pubblicato: 26/06/2025 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Pubblicato: 25/06/2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Pubblicato: 24/06/2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Pubblicato: 23/06/2025 -
Making Jaws
Pubblicato: 20/06/2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Pubblicato: 19/06/2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Pubblicato: 18/06/2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Pubblicato: 17/06/2025 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Pubblicato: 16/06/2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Pubblicato: 13/06/2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Pubblicato: 12/06/2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Pubblicato: 11/06/2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Pubblicato: 10/06/2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Pubblicato: 09/06/2025
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.
