Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1578 Episodio
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Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Pubblicato: 31/10/2025 -
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Pubblicato: 30/10/2025 -
Srebrenica massacre
Pubblicato: 29/10/2025 -
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Pubblicato: 28/10/2025 -
Death of a priest
Pubblicato: 27/10/2025 -
The man who invented the scratch card
Pubblicato: 24/10/2025 -
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
Pubblicato: 23/10/2025 -
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Pubblicato: 22/10/2025 -
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Pubblicato: 21/10/2025 -
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
Pubblicato: 20/10/2025 -
My aunt created The Moomins
Pubblicato: 17/10/2025 -
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
Pubblicato: 16/10/2025 -
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Pubblicato: 15/10/2025 -
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Pubblicato: 14/10/2025 -
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
Pubblicato: 13/10/2025 -
How BRICS got its name
Pubblicato: 10/10/2025 -
Japan surrenders in Beijing
Pubblicato: 09/10/2025 -
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
Pubblicato: 08/10/2025 -
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
Pubblicato: 07/10/2025 -
The home video war
Pubblicato: 06/10/2025
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.
