Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
-
India's onion election
Pubblicato: 26/08/2022 -
The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard
Pubblicato: 25/08/2022 -
The Gay Games
Pubblicato: 24/08/2022 -
Hundreds die in Darayya
Pubblicato: 23/08/2022 -
Bulgaria's cash crisis
Pubblicato: 22/08/2022 -
The Bard of Bengal
Pubblicato: 19/08/2022 -
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
Pubblicato: 18/08/2022 -
The last Viceroy of India
Pubblicato: 17/08/2022 -
India's Partition - Part Two
Pubblicato: 16/08/2022 -
India's Partition - Part One
Pubblicato: 15/08/2022 -
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Pubblicato: 12/08/2022 -
Discovering Hale Bopp
Pubblicato: 11/08/2022 -
Indonesia's forest fires
Pubblicato: 10/08/2022 -
Sweden’s pronoun battle
Pubblicato: 09/08/2022 -
The resignation of President Nixon
Pubblicato: 08/08/2022 -
The return of Asians to Uganda
Pubblicato: 05/08/2022 -
The city shaped by Ugandan Asians
Pubblicato: 04/08/2022 -
The exodus of Asians from Uganda
Pubblicato: 03/08/2022 -
When Asians were forced to leave Kenya
Pubblicato: 02/08/2022 -
Why Asians came to Uganda
Pubblicato: 01/08/2022
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.
