Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The handshake in Space
Pubblicato: 07/04/2022 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Pubblicato: 06/04/2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Pubblicato: 05/04/2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Pubblicato: 01/04/2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Pubblicato: 31/03/2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Pubblicato: 30/03/2022 -
Banksy’s first street art mural
Pubblicato: 29/03/2022 -
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Pubblicato: 28/03/2022 -
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Pubblicato: 25/03/2022 -
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
Pubblicato: 24/03/2022 -
The Budapest Memorandum
Pubblicato: 22/03/2022 -
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Pubblicato: 21/03/2022 -
The Shard
Pubblicato: 18/03/2022 -
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Pubblicato: 17/03/2022 -
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Pubblicato: 16/03/2022 -
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
Pubblicato: 15/03/2022 -
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
Pubblicato: 14/03/2022 -
The Wages for Housework campaign
Pubblicato: 11/03/2022 -
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Pubblicato: 10/03/2022 -
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Pubblicato: 09/03/2022
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.
