Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Pubblicato: 10/07/2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Pubblicato: 09/07/2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Pubblicato: 08/07/2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Pubblicato: 05/07/2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Pubblicato: 04/07/2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Pubblicato: 03/07/2024 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Pubblicato: 02/07/2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Pubblicato: 01/07/2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Pubblicato: 29/06/2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Pubblicato: 27/06/2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Pubblicato: 26/06/2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Pubblicato: 25/06/2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Pubblicato: 24/06/2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Pubblicato: 21/06/2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Pubblicato: 20/06/2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Pubblicato: 19/06/2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Pubblicato: 18/06/2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Pubblicato: 17/06/2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Pubblicato: 14/06/2024 -
Kielland disaster
Pubblicato: 13/06/2024
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.
