Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1502 Episodio
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Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Pubblicato: 01/01/2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Pubblicato: 31/12/2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Pubblicato: 30/12/2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Pubblicato: 27/12/2024 -
'Kimchi war'
Pubblicato: 26/12/2024 -
Chef to five presidents
Pubblicato: 25/12/2024 -
When instant noodles came to India
Pubblicato: 24/12/2024 -
'I created MasterChef'
Pubblicato: 23/12/2024 -
Australian republic referendum
Pubblicato: 20/12/2024 -
Poland's bleak Christmas
Pubblicato: 19/12/2024 -
Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Pubblicato: 18/12/2024 -
Surviving Andes plane crash
Pubblicato: 17/12/2024 -
Peshawar school massacre
Pubblicato: 16/12/2024 -
The birth of reggaeton
Pubblicato: 13/12/2024 -
The handover of the Panama Canal
Pubblicato: 12/12/2024 -
The Purple Heart Warriors
Pubblicato: 11/12/2024 -
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
Pubblicato: 09/12/2024 -
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Pubblicato: 06/12/2024 -
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
Pubblicato: 05/12/2024 -
The ‘Three Marias’
Pubblicato: 04/12/2024
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.
