Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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First Danish queen for 600 years
Pubblicato: 14/02/2023 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Pubblicato: 13/02/2023 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Pubblicato: 10/02/2023 -
The Pope and Jews
Pubblicato: 09/02/2023 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Pubblicato: 08/02/2023 -
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
Pubblicato: 07/02/2023 -
How a Pope is chosen
Pubblicato: 06/02/2023 -
The first black music station in Europe
Pubblicato: 03/02/2023 -
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Pubblicato: 02/02/2023 -
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Pubblicato: 01/02/2023 -
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Pubblicato: 31/01/2023 -
Palestine Post bombing
Pubblicato: 30/01/2023 -
Invention of the MP3
Pubblicato: 27/01/2023 -
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Pubblicato: 26/01/2023 -
Smolensk air disaster
Pubblicato: 25/01/2023 -
Japanese death row guard
Pubblicato: 24/01/2023 -
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Pubblicato: 23/01/2023 -
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
Pubblicato: 20/01/2023 -
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Pubblicato: 19/01/2023 -
Kosovo’s house schools
Pubblicato: 18/01/2023
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.
