Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The Iranian Revolution and women
Pubblicato: 25/10/2022 -
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Pubblicato: 24/10/2022 -
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Pubblicato: 21/10/2022 -
Cuba's boxing ban
Pubblicato: 20/10/2022 -
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Pubblicato: 19/10/2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Pubblicato: 18/10/2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Pubblicato: 17/10/2022 -
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Pubblicato: 14/10/2022 -
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Pubblicato: 12/10/2022 -
Disney animators' strike
Pubblicato: 11/10/2022 -
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
Pubblicato: 10/10/2022 -
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
Pubblicato: 07/10/2022 -
The Harder They Come
Pubblicato: 06/10/2022 -
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
Pubblicato: 05/10/2022 -
The release of Gilad Shalit
Pubblicato: 04/10/2022 -
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Pubblicato: 03/10/2022 -
Dassler brothers’ rift
Pubblicato: 30/09/2022 -
The raising of the Mary Rose
Pubblicato: 29/09/2022 -
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
Pubblicato: 28/09/2022 -
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Pubblicato: 26/09/2022
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.
