Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
Pubblicato: 24/01/2024 -
Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Pubblicato: 23/01/2024 -
Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
Pubblicato: 22/01/2024 -
Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'
Pubblicato: 19/01/2024 -
Ibadan Zoo
Pubblicato: 18/01/2024 -
Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison
Pubblicato: 17/01/2024 -
The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
Pubblicato: 16/01/2024 -
The hunger-striking Bolivian president
Pubblicato: 15/01/2024 -
Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
Pubblicato: 12/01/2024 -
The first World Laughter Day
Pubblicato: 11/01/2024 -
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
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.
