Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1503 Episodio
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Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
Pubblicato: 22/05/2024 -
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Pubblicato: 21/05/2024 -
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
Pubblicato: 20/05/2024 -
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Pubblicato: 17/05/2024 -
Baghdad heavy metal
Pubblicato: 16/05/2024 -
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
Pubblicato: 15/05/2024 -
The creation of the state of Israel
Pubblicato: 14/05/2024 -
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
Pubblicato: 13/05/2024 -
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
Pubblicato: 10/05/2024 -
How a billion Indians got a digital ID
Pubblicato: 09/05/2024 -
The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
Pubblicato: 08/05/2024 -
East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Pubblicato: 07/05/2024 -
Friends: The making of a smash hit
Pubblicato: 06/05/2024 -
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Pubblicato: 03/05/2024 -
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
Pubblicato: 02/05/2024 -
How to win friends and influence people
Pubblicato: 01/05/2024 -
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Pubblicato: 30/04/2024 -
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Pubblicato: 29/04/2024 -
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Pubblicato: 26/04/2024 -
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Pubblicato: 25/04/2024
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.
