Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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Discovering the Terracotta Army
Pubblicato: 21/03/2024 -
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Pubblicato: 20/03/2024 -
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Pubblicato: 19/03/2024 -
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
Pubblicato: 18/03/2024 -
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Pubblicato: 15/03/2024 -
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Pubblicato: 14/03/2024 -
Paraguay adopts its second language
Pubblicato: 13/03/2024 -
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
Pubblicato: 12/03/2024 -
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Pubblicato: 11/03/2024 -
MH370: The plane that vanished
Pubblicato: 08/03/2024 -
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
Pubblicato: 07/03/2024 -
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
Pubblicato: 06/03/2024 -
French child evacuees of World War Two
Pubblicato: 05/03/2024 -
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
Pubblicato: 04/03/2024 -
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
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.
