Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1507 Épisodes
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The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Publié: 15/10/2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Publié: 14/10/2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Publié: 11/10/2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Publié: 10/10/2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Publié: 09/10/2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Publié: 08/10/2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Publié: 07/10/2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Publié: 04/10/2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Publié: 03/10/2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Publié: 02/10/2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Publié: 01/10/2024 -
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
Publié: 30/09/2024 -
The Estonia ferry disaster
Publié: 27/09/2024 -
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Publié: 26/09/2024 -
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Publié: 25/09/2024 -
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Publié: 24/09/2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Publié: 23/09/2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Publié: 20/09/2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Publié: 19/09/2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Publié: 18/09/2024
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.
