Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1513 Episodio
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Tragedy on Everest
Pubblicato: 01/06/2023 -
Mallory’s body discovered on Everest
Pubblicato: 31/05/2023 -
Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest
Pubblicato: 30/05/2023 -
Edmund Hillary conquers Everest
Pubblicato: 29/05/2023 -
The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world
Pubblicato: 26/05/2023 -
Trying to unite Africa
Pubblicato: 25/05/2023 -
Chasing the world’s biggest tornado
Pubblicato: 24/05/2023 -
Fikret Alić
Pubblicato: 23/05/2023 -
The sergeants' coup in Suriname
Pubblicato: 22/05/2023 -
Pippi Longstocking
Pubblicato: 19/05/2023 -
Creating New Zealand's national walking trail
Pubblicato: 18/05/2023 -
The Dambusters
Pubblicato: 17/05/2023 -
German child evacuees of World War Two
Pubblicato: 16/05/2023 -
Singapore executes Filipina maid
Pubblicato: 15/05/2023 -
World War II victory in North Africa
Pubblicato: 12/05/2023 -
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Pubblicato: 11/05/2023 -
The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak
Pubblicato: 10/05/2023 -
The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’
Pubblicato: 09/05/2023 -
United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
Pubblicato: 08/05/2023 -
The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny
Pubblicato: 05/05/2023
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.