Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1472 Folgen
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Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Vom: 2.7.2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Vom: 1.7.2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Vom: 29.6.2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Vom: 27.6.2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Vom: 26.6.2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Vom: 25.6.2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Vom: 24.6.2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Vom: 21.6.2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Vom: 20.6.2024 -
The beginning of Benidorm
Vom: 19.6.2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Vom: 18.6.2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Vom: 17.6.2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Vom: 14.6.2024 -
Kielland disaster
Vom: 13.6.2024 -
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Vom: 12.6.2024 -
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Vom: 11.6.2024 -
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
Vom: 10.6.2024 -
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Vom: 7.6.2024 -
Saving lives on D-Day
Vom: 6.6.2024 -
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Vom: 5.6.2024
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.
