Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1507 Épisodes
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How Greece got rid of their king
Publié: 12/11/2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Publié: 11/11/2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Publié: 08/11/2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Publié: 07/11/2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Publié: 06/11/2024 -
In exile from Iran
Publié: 05/11/2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Publié: 04/11/2024 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Publié: 01/11/2024 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Publié: 31/10/2024 -
The Ken Burns Effect
Publié: 30/10/2024 -
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
Publié: 29/10/2024 -
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Publié: 28/10/2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Publié: 25/10/2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Publié: 24/10/2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Publié: 23/10/2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Publié: 22/10/2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Publié: 21/10/2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Publié: 18/10/2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Publié: 17/10/2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Publié: 16/10/2024
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.
