Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1503 Episodio
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Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Pubblicato: 14/08/2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Pubblicato: 13/08/2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Pubblicato: 12/08/2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Pubblicato: 09/08/2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Pubblicato: 08/08/2024 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Pubblicato: 07/08/2024 -
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
Pubblicato: 06/08/2024 -
The Situation Room photograph
Pubblicato: 05/08/2024 -
Ice Bucket Challenge
Pubblicato: 02/08/2024 -
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
Pubblicato: 01/08/2024 -
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
Pubblicato: 31/07/2024 -
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Pubblicato: 30/07/2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Pubblicato: 29/07/2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Pubblicato: 26/07/2024 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Pubblicato: 25/07/2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Pubblicato: 24/07/2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Pubblicato: 23/07/2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Pubblicato: 22/07/2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Pubblicato: 19/07/2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Pubblicato: 18/07/2024
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.
