Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1472 Folgen
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Vom: 6.6.2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Vom: 5.6.2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Vom: 4.6.2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Vom: 3.6.2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Vom: 2.6.2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Vom: 30.5.2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Vom: 29.5.2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Vom: 28.5.2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Vom: 27.5.2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Vom: 26.5.2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Vom: 23.5.2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Vom: 22.5.2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Vom: 21.5.2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Vom: 20.5.2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Vom: 19.5.2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Vom: 16.5.2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Vom: 15.5.2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Vom: 14.5.2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Vom: 13.5.2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Vom: 12.5.2025
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.
