Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1500 Episodio
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Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Pubblicato: 26/02/2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Pubblicato: 25/02/2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Pubblicato: 24/02/2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Pubblicato: 21/02/2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Pubblicato: 20/02/2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Pubblicato: 19/02/2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Pubblicato: 18/02/2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Pubblicato: 17/02/2025 -
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Pubblicato: 14/02/2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Pubblicato: 13/02/2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Pubblicato: 12/02/2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Pubblicato: 11/02/2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Pubblicato: 10/02/2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Pubblicato: 07/02/2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Pubblicato: 06/02/2025 -
Cuban blindness
Pubblicato: 05/02/2025 -
Oradour massacre
Pubblicato: 04/02/2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Pubblicato: 03/02/2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Pubblicato: 31/01/2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Pubblicato: 30/01/2025
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.
