Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1472 Folgen
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Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
Vom: 30.7.2024 -
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
Vom: 29.7.2024 -
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Vom: 26.7.2024 -
Building the Moscow Metro
Vom: 25.7.2024 -
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Vom: 24.7.2024 -
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
Vom: 23.7.2024 -
The 1924 Paris Olympics
Vom: 22.7.2024 -
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
Vom: 19.7.2024 -
The missing people of Cyprus
Vom: 18.7.2024 -
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Vom: 17.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Vom: 16.7.2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Vom: 15.7.2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Vom: 12.7.2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Vom: 11.7.2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Vom: 10.7.2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Vom: 9.7.2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Vom: 8.7.2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Vom: 5.7.2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Vom: 4.7.2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Vom: 3.7.2024
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.