Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1578 Folgen
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Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Vom: 31.10.2025 -
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Vom: 30.10.2025 -
Srebrenica massacre
Vom: 29.10.2025 -
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Vom: 28.10.2025 -
Death of a priest
Vom: 27.10.2025 -
The man who invented the scratch card
Vom: 24.10.2025 -
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
Vom: 23.10.2025 -
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Vom: 22.10.2025 -
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Vom: 21.10.2025 -
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
Vom: 20.10.2025 -
My aunt created The Moomins
Vom: 17.10.2025 -
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
Vom: 16.10.2025 -
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Vom: 15.10.2025 -
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Vom: 14.10.2025 -
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
Vom: 13.10.2025 -
How BRICS got its name
Vom: 10.10.2025 -
Japan surrenders in Beijing
Vom: 9.10.2025 -
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
Vom: 8.10.2025 -
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
Vom: 7.10.2025 -
The home video war
Vom: 6.10.2025
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.
