Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1505 Épisodes
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The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Publié: 02/04/2025 -
The invention of superglue
Publié: 01/04/2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Publié: 31/03/2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Publié: 28/03/2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Publié: 27/03/2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Publié: 26/03/2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Publié: 25/03/2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Publié: 24/03/2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Publié: 21/03/2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Publié: 20/03/2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Publié: 19/03/2025 -
First spacewalk
Publié: 18/03/2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Publié: 17/03/2025 -
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Publié: 14/03/2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Publié: 13/03/2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Publié: 12/03/2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Publié: 11/03/2025 -
The invention of GPS
Publié: 10/03/2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Publié: 07/03/2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Publié: 06/03/2025
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.
