Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1509 Épisodes
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India’s first female bartender
Publié: 22/08/2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Publié: 22/08/2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Publié: 20/08/2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Publié: 19/08/2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Publié: 16/08/2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Publié: 15/08/2024 -
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Publié: 14/08/2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Publié: 13/08/2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Publié: 12/08/2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Publié: 09/08/2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Publié: 08/08/2024 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Publié: 07/08/2024 -
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
Publié: 06/08/2024 -
The Situation Room photograph
Publié: 05/08/2024 -
Ice Bucket Challenge
Publié: 02/08/2024 -
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
Publié: 01/08/2024 -
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
Publié: 31/07/2024 -
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Publié: 30/07/2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Publié: 29/07/2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Publié: 26/07/2024
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.
