Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Pubblicato: 20/12/2022 -
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Pubblicato: 19/12/2022 -
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Pubblicato: 16/12/2022 -
Soviet fashionista
Pubblicato: 15/12/2022 -
Returning to District Six
Pubblicato: 14/12/2022 -
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Pubblicato: 13/12/2022 -
Mongolian revolution
Pubblicato: 12/12/2022 -
Creating Teletubbies
Pubblicato: 09/12/2022 -
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
Pubblicato: 08/12/2022 -
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Pubblicato: 07/12/2022 -
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Pubblicato: 06/12/2022 -
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Pubblicato: 05/12/2022 -
Miss World protest
Pubblicato: 02/12/2022 -
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Pubblicato: 01/12/2022 -
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
Pubblicato: 30/11/2022 -
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Pubblicato: 29/11/2022 -
Mombasa terror attacks
Pubblicato: 28/11/2022 -
How cat's eyes were invented
Pubblicato: 25/11/2022 -
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
Pubblicato: 24/11/2022 -
When Sweden’s roads went right
Pubblicato: 23/11/2022
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.
