Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1505 Épisodes
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The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Publié: 25/06/2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Publié: 24/06/2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Publié: 23/06/2025 -
Making Jaws
Publié: 20/06/2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Publié: 19/06/2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Publié: 18/06/2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Publié: 17/06/2025 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Publié: 16/06/2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Publié: 13/06/2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Publié: 12/06/2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Publié: 11/06/2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Publié: 10/06/2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Publié: 09/06/2025 -
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Publié: 06/06/2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publié: 05/06/2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publié: 04/06/2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publié: 03/06/2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Publié: 02/06/2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Publié: 30/05/2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Publié: 29/05/2025
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.
