Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1518 Folgen
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Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Vom: 4.9.2023 -
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Vom: 1.9.2023 -
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Vom: 31.8.2023 -
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
Vom: 30.8.2023 -
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
Vom: 29.8.2023 -
The Bristol bus boycott
Vom: 28.8.2023 -
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
Vom: 25.8.2023 -
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
Vom: 24.8.2023 -
The first Rose of Tralee
Vom: 23.8.2023 -
How electricity came to rural Ireland
Vom: 22.8.2023 -
Easter Rising in Ireland
Vom: 21.8.2023 -
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
Vom: 18.8.2023 -
Judy Garland: The final shows
Vom: 17.8.2023 -
Returning Benin Bronzes
Vom: 16.8.2023 -
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
Vom: 15.8.2023 -
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
Vom: 14.8.2023 -
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
Vom: 11.8.2023 -
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Vom: 10.8.2023 -
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
Vom: 9.8.2023 -
The Great Train Robbery
Vom: 8.8.2023
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.
