Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The chemistry of cannabis
Pubblicato: 05/05/2022 -
Roe v Wade
Pubblicato: 04/05/2022 -
Surviving the Falkands War
Pubblicato: 03/05/2022 -
The sinking of the Belgrano
Pubblicato: 02/05/2022 -
Algeria's rebel footballers
Pubblicato: 29/04/2022 -
The Algerians who fought for France
Pubblicato: 28/04/2022 -
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
Pubblicato: 27/04/2022 -
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Pubblicato: 26/04/2022 -
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Pubblicato: 25/04/2022 -
The battle for Kinder Scout
Pubblicato: 22/04/2022 -
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Pubblicato: 21/04/2022 -
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Pubblicato: 20/04/2022 -
Women's rights in Basra
Pubblicato: 19/04/2022 -
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
Pubblicato: 18/04/2022 -
The World Wide Web
Pubblicato: 15/04/2022 -
How Tinder changed the dating game
Pubblicato: 14/04/2022 -
Greece's Great Famine
Pubblicato: 13/04/2022 -
The largest war crimes trial in history
Pubblicato: 12/04/2022 -
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
Pubblicato: 11/04/2022 -
The Great American Grain Robbery
Pubblicato: 08/04/2022
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.
