Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1503 Episodio
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Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Pubblicato: 24/04/2024 -
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
Pubblicato: 23/04/2024 -
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Pubblicato: 22/04/2024 -
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Pubblicato: 19/04/2024 -
Deadly Everest avalanche
Pubblicato: 18/04/2024 -
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
Pubblicato: 17/04/2024 -
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Pubblicato: 16/04/2024 -
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Pubblicato: 15/04/2024 -
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Pubblicato: 12/04/2024 -
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
Pubblicato: 11/04/2024 -
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
Pubblicato: 10/04/2024 -
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Pubblicato: 09/04/2024 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Pubblicato: 08/04/2024 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Pubblicato: 06/04/2024 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Pubblicato: 05/04/2024 -
The Bluetooth story
Pubblicato: 04/04/2024 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Pubblicato: 03/04/2024 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Pubblicato: 02/04/2024 -
Fifty years of Abba
Pubblicato: 31/03/2024 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Pubblicato: 29/03/2024
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.
