Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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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 -
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Pubblicato: 13/12/2023 -
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Pubblicato: 12/12/2023 -
Murder of the Romanovs
Pubblicato: 11/12/2023 -
The release of DOOM
Pubblicato: 08/12/2023 -
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
Pubblicato: 07/12/2023 -
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Pubblicato: 06/12/2023 -
La Haine: The film that shocked France
Pubblicato: 04/12/2023 -
World's first solar-heated home
Pubblicato: 01/12/2023 -
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Pubblicato: 30/11/2023 -
The bird that defied extinction
Pubblicato: 28/11/2023
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.