Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1502 Episodio
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WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Pubblicato: 08/10/2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Pubblicato: 07/10/2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Pubblicato: 04/10/2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Pubblicato: 03/10/2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Pubblicato: 02/10/2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Pubblicato: 01/10/2024 -
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
Pubblicato: 30/09/2024 -
The Estonia ferry disaster
Pubblicato: 27/09/2024 -
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Pubblicato: 26/09/2024 -
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Pubblicato: 25/09/2024 -
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Pubblicato: 24/09/2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Pubblicato: 23/09/2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Pubblicato: 20/09/2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Pubblicato: 19/09/2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Pubblicato: 18/09/2024 -
Camouflaging Leningrad
Pubblicato: 17/09/2024 -
The invention of the CT scanner
Pubblicato: 16/09/2024 -
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Pubblicato: 13/09/2024 -
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Pubblicato: 12/09/2024 -
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Pubblicato: 11/09/2024
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.
