Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1504 Episodio
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The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
Pubblicato: 01/03/2024 -
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
Pubblicato: 29/02/2024 -
The lost Czech scrolls
Pubblicato: 28/02/2024 -
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Pubblicato: 27/02/2024 -
Russia annexes Crimea
Pubblicato: 26/02/2024 -
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Pubblicato: 23/02/2024 -
Columbus Lighthouse
Pubblicato: 22/02/2024 -
Trans murder in Honduras
Pubblicato: 21/02/2024 -
Icelandic women's strike
Pubblicato: 20/02/2024 -
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Pubblicato: 19/02/2024 -
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
Pubblicato: 16/02/2024 -
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
Pubblicato: 15/02/2024 -
The Juliet letters
Pubblicato: 14/02/2024 -
Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
Pubblicato: 13/02/2024 -
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
Pubblicato: 12/02/2024 -
The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
Pubblicato: 09/02/2024 -
How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
Pubblicato: 08/02/2024 -
Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
Pubblicato: 07/02/2024 -
A young mother saved from death by stoning
Pubblicato: 06/02/2024 -
Queen of the 'fro
Pubblicato: 05/02/2024
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.
