Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1503 Episodio
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Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Pubblicato: 11/09/2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Pubblicato: 10/09/2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Pubblicato: 09/09/2024 -
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
Pubblicato: 06/09/2024 -
Apollo 13
Pubblicato: 05/09/2024 -
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Pubblicato: 04/09/2024 -
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
Pubblicato: 03/09/2024 -
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Pubblicato: 02/09/2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Pubblicato: 30/08/2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Pubblicato: 29/08/2024 -
Waris Dirie
Pubblicato: 28/08/2024 -
The writer of Mary Poppins
Pubblicato: 27/08/2024 -
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Pubblicato: 26/08/2024 -
Spain's La Tomatina
Pubblicato: 23/08/2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Pubblicato: 22/08/2024 -
India’s first female bartender
Pubblicato: 22/08/2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Pubblicato: 20/08/2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Pubblicato: 19/08/2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Pubblicato: 16/08/2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Pubblicato: 15/08/2024
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.
