Witness History
Un podcast de BBC World Service
1505 Épisodes
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The US invasion of Panama
Publié: 05/03/2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Publié: 04/03/2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Publié: 03/03/2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Publié: 28/02/2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Publié: 27/02/2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Publié: 26/02/2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Publié: 25/02/2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Publié: 24/02/2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Publié: 21/02/2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Publié: 20/02/2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Publié: 19/02/2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Publié: 18/02/2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Publié: 17/02/2025 -
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Publié: 14/02/2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Publié: 13/02/2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Publié: 12/02/2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Publié: 11/02/2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Publié: 10/02/2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Publié: 07/02/2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Publié: 06/02/2025
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.
