Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Pubblicato: 27/11/2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Pubblicato: 26/11/2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Pubblicato: 25/11/2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Pubblicato: 22/11/2024 -
Lord of the Flies
Pubblicato: 21/11/2024 -
Handover of Macau
Pubblicato: 20/11/2024 -
The Siege of Yarmouk
Pubblicato: 19/11/2024 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Pubblicato: 18/11/2024 -
German naturists
Pubblicato: 15/11/2024 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Pubblicato: 14/11/2024 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Pubblicato: 13/11/2024 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Pubblicato: 12/11/2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Pubblicato: 11/11/2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Pubblicato: 08/11/2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Pubblicato: 07/11/2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Pubblicato: 06/11/2024 -
In exile from Iran
Pubblicato: 05/11/2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Pubblicato: 04/11/2024 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Pubblicato: 01/11/2024 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Pubblicato: 31/10/2024
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.
