Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Pubblicato: 03/06/2022 -
Sarin attack in Syria
Pubblicato: 02/06/2022 -
Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
Pubblicato: 01/06/2022 -
Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
Pubblicato: 31/05/2022 -
The attack on Lod Airport
Pubblicato: 30/05/2022 -
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pubblicato: 27/05/2022 -
The World Festival of Black Arts
Pubblicato: 26/05/2022 -
The museum of banned Russian art
Pubblicato: 25/05/2022 -
The last days of Frida Kahlo
Pubblicato: 24/05/2022 -
Meeting Picasso
Pubblicato: 23/05/2022 -
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
Pubblicato: 20/05/2022 -
Chasing the Marcos millions
Pubblicato: 20/05/2022 -
Shanghai at War
Pubblicato: 19/05/2022 -
The first McDonald's in Moscow
Pubblicato: 18/05/2022 -
People Power in the Philippines
Pubblicato: 16/05/2022 -
The war in Transnistria
Pubblicato: 13/05/2022 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Pubblicato: 11/05/2022 -
China opens up to capitalism
Pubblicato: 10/05/2022 -
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Pubblicato: 09/05/2022 -
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Pubblicato: 06/05/2022
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.
