Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1452 Episodio
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Pubblicato: 06/06/2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Pubblicato: 05/06/2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Pubblicato: 04/06/2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Pubblicato: 03/06/2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Pubblicato: 02/06/2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Pubblicato: 30/05/2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Pubblicato: 29/05/2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Pubblicato: 28/05/2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Pubblicato: 27/05/2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Pubblicato: 26/05/2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Pubblicato: 23/05/2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Pubblicato: 22/05/2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Pubblicato: 21/05/2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Pubblicato: 20/05/2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Pubblicato: 19/05/2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Pubblicato: 16/05/2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Pubblicato: 15/05/2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Pubblicato: 14/05/2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Pubblicato: 13/05/2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Pubblicato: 12/05/2025
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.
