Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The Leaflet Bomber
Pubblicato: 01/08/2022 -
The Tangshan Earthquake
Pubblicato: 28/07/2022 -
Inventing nicotine patches
Pubblicato: 27/07/2022 -
The Surkov leaks
Pubblicato: 26/07/2022 -
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Pubblicato: 25/07/2022 -
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
Pubblicato: 22/07/2022 -
The Soviet James Bond
Pubblicato: 21/07/2022 -
Who shot JR?
Pubblicato: 20/07/2022 -
Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
Pubblicato: 19/07/2022 -
The school for telenovela stars
Pubblicato: 18/07/2022 -
Fighting for the pill in Japan
Pubblicato: 15/07/2022 -
The man who invented the Pill
Pubblicato: 14/07/2022 -
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Pubblicato: 13/07/2022 -
Poland's strict abortion law
Pubblicato: 12/07/2022 -
How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
Pubblicato: 11/07/2022 -
The US’s first gay election candidate
Pubblicato: 08/07/2022 -
How the smear test was invented
Pubblicato: 07/07/2022 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Pubblicato: 06/07/2022 -
Japanese university student riots
Pubblicato: 05/07/2022 -
The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
Pubblicato: 04/07/2022
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.
