Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1502 Episodio
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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 -
The Ken Burns Effect
Pubblicato: 30/10/2024 -
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
Pubblicato: 29/10/2024 -
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Pubblicato: 28/10/2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Pubblicato: 25/10/2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Pubblicato: 24/10/2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Pubblicato: 23/10/2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Pubblicato: 22/10/2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Pubblicato: 21/10/2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Pubblicato: 18/10/2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Pubblicato: 17/10/2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Pubblicato: 16/10/2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Pubblicato: 15/10/2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Pubblicato: 14/10/2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Pubblicato: 11/10/2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Pubblicato: 10/10/2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Pubblicato: 09/10/2024
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.
