Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1508 Episodio
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Russian ballerina defects to the west
Pubblicato: 10/01/2024 -
The mystery of France's lost king
Pubblicato: 09/01/2024 -
The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
Pubblicato: 08/01/2024 -
What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
Pubblicato: 05/01/2024 -
The Hindenburg airship disaster
Pubblicato: 04/01/2024 -
The invention of the wingsuit
Pubblicato: 03/01/2024 -
Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
Pubblicato: 02/01/2024 -
Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
Pubblicato: 01/01/2024 -
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
Pubblicato: 29/12/2023 -
The disputed history of pad Thai
Pubblicato: 28/12/2023 -
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
Pubblicato: 27/12/2023 -
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
Pubblicato: 26/12/2023 -
Inventing Nutella
Pubblicato: 25/12/2023 -
'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
Pubblicato: 22/12/2023 -
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
Pubblicato: 21/12/2023 -
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
Pubblicato: 20/12/2023 -
The assassination of King Faisal
Pubblicato: 19/12/2023 -
Tsunami devastates Samoa
Pubblicato: 18/12/2023 -
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Pubblicato: 15/12/2023 -
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Pubblicato: 14/12/2023
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.
