Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1518 Episodio
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The first Emirati female teacher
Pubblicato: 03/02/2022 -
The day the world looked up
Pubblicato: 02/02/2022 -
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
Pubblicato: 01/02/2022 -
The Good Friday Agreement
Pubblicato: 28/01/2022 -
IRA gun-running in America
Pubblicato: 27/01/2022 -
The Grand Hotel Bombing
Pubblicato: 26/01/2022 -
Bloody Sunday
Pubblicato: 25/01/2022 -
British troops in Northern Ireland
Pubblicato: 24/01/2022 -
A Cold War love affair
Pubblicato: 21/01/2022 -
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Pubblicato: 20/01/2022 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Pubblicato: 20/01/2022 -
The rise of Boko Haram
Pubblicato: 17/01/2022 -
The first silicone breast implants
Pubblicato: 14/01/2022 -
Costa Concordia
Pubblicato: 13/01/2022 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Pubblicato: 12/01/2022 -
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
Pubblicato: 11/01/2022 -
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Pubblicato: 10/01/2022 -
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Pubblicato: 06/01/2022 -
Marcel Proust
Pubblicato: 05/01/2022 -
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Pubblicato: 04/01/2022
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.
