Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
Pubblicato: 16/03/2023 -
Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
Pubblicato: 15/03/2023 -
Iraq War: Refugees escaping
Pubblicato: 14/03/2023 -
Iraq War: The beginning
Pubblicato: 13/03/2023 -
From a goddess to a graduate
Pubblicato: 10/03/2023 -
Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Pubblicato: 09/03/2023 -
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Pubblicato: 06/03/2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Pubblicato: 03/03/2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Pubblicato: 02/03/2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Pubblicato: 01/03/2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Pubblicato: 28/02/2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Pubblicato: 27/02/2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Pubblicato: 24/02/2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Pubblicato: 23/02/2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Pubblicato: 22/02/2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Pubblicato: 21/02/2023 -
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
Pubblicato: 20/02/2023 -
First winter ascent of Everest
Pubblicato: 17/02/2023 -
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
Pubblicato: 16/02/2023 -
'I developed Pokémon'
Pubblicato: 15/02/2023
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.