Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City
Pubblicato: 30/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: Abandoned children
Pubblicato: 30/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
Pubblicato: 29/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner
Pubblicato: 28/06/2022 -
Hong Kong: The handover
Pubblicato: 27/06/2022 -
The UK's first official gay Pride March
Pubblicato: 24/06/2022 -
Egypt's first democratic presidential election
Pubblicato: 23/06/2022 -
The killing of Vincent Chin
Pubblicato: 22/06/2022 -
Robot Surgeon
Pubblicato: 21/06/2022 -
India's surrogacy capital
Pubblicato: 20/06/2022 -
Cambodia war crimes
Pubblicato: 17/06/2022 -
James Joyce and Ulysses
Pubblicato: 16/06/2022 -
New York's LGBT High School
Pubblicato: 15/06/2022 -
Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
Pubblicato: 14/06/2022 -
Holy Cross school dispute
Pubblicato: 13/06/2022 -
The Gulabi Gang
Pubblicato: 10/06/2022 -
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Pubblicato: 09/06/2022 -
Saving Gabon's rainforest
Pubblicato: 08/06/2022 -
The Diary of Anne Frank
Pubblicato: 07/06/2022 -
The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
Pubblicato: 06/06/2022
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.
