Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1501 Episodio
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1968 New York City teachers' strike
Pubblicato: 30/01/2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Pubblicato: 29/01/2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Pubblicato: 28/01/2025 -
The Milltown Cemetery attack
Pubblicato: 27/01/2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Pubblicato: 24/01/2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Pubblicato: 23/01/2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Pubblicato: 22/01/2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Pubblicato: 21/01/2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Pubblicato: 20/01/2025 -
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Pubblicato: 17/01/2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Pubblicato: 16/01/2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Pubblicato: 15/01/2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Pubblicato: 14/01/2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Pubblicato: 13/01/2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Pubblicato: 10/01/2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Pubblicato: 09/01/2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Pubblicato: 08/01/2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Pubblicato: 07/01/2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Pubblicato: 02/01/2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Pubblicato: 01/01/2025
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.
