Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1511 Épisodes
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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 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Publié: 25/07/2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Publié: 24/07/2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Publié: 23/07/2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Publié: 22/07/2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Publié: 19/07/2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Publié: 18/07/2024 -
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Publié: 17/07/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Publié: 16/07/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Publié: 15/07/2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Publié: 12/07/2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Publié: 11/07/2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Publié: 10/07/2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Publié: 09/07/2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Publié: 08/07/2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Publié: 05/07/2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Publié: 04/07/2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Publié: 03/07/2024 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Publié: 02/07/2024
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.
