Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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First women’s minister in Iran
Pubblicato: 22/11/2022 -
The invention of the seat belt
Pubblicato: 21/11/2022 -
Qatar's first female published author
Pubblicato: 18/11/2022 -
First Emirati female teacher
Pubblicato: 17/11/2022 -
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Pubblicato: 16/11/2022 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Pubblicato: 15/11/2022 -
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Pubblicato: 14/11/2022 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Pubblicato: 11/11/2022 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Pubblicato: 10/11/2022 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Pubblicato: 09/11/2022 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Pubblicato: 08/11/2022 -
Polynesian Panthers
Pubblicato: 07/11/2022 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Pubblicato: 04/11/2022 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Pubblicato: 03/11/2022 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Pubblicato: 02/11/2022 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Pubblicato: 01/11/2022 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Pubblicato: 31/10/2022 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Pubblicato: 28/10/2022 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Pubblicato: 27/10/2022 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Pubblicato: 26/10/2022
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.
