Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1509 Episodio
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Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
Pubblicato: 14/11/2023 -
The invention of the EpiPen
Pubblicato: 13/11/2023 -
The hippo and the tortoise
Pubblicato: 10/11/2023 -
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
Pubblicato: 09/11/2023 -
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Pubblicato: 08/11/2023 -
Debbie McGee in Iran
Pubblicato: 07/11/2023 -
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Pubblicato: 06/11/2023 -
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Pubblicato: 03/11/2023 -
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Pubblicato: 02/11/2023 -
Inventing the black box
Pubblicato: 01/11/2023 -
The discovery of the HIV virus
Pubblicato: 31/10/2023 -
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Pubblicato: 30/10/2023 -
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
Pubblicato: 27/10/2023 -
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
Pubblicato: 26/10/2023 -
The 1993 MAD hijack
Pubblicato: 25/10/2023 -
The 1980 Turkey coup
Pubblicato: 24/10/2023 -
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Pubblicato: 23/10/2023 -
Osmondmania
Pubblicato: 20/10/2023 -
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Pubblicato: 19/10/2023 -
Mexico’s murdered women
Pubblicato: 18/10/2023
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.
