Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1518 Folgen
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A right royal night out
Vom: 7.7.2023 -
When tourism came to the Maldives
Vom: 6.7.2023 -
The National Health Service begins
Vom: 5.7.2023 -
Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
Vom: 4.7.2023 -
The trial of John Demjanjuk
Vom: 3.7.2023 -
I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
Vom: 30.6.2023 -
The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Vom: 29.6.2023 -
Sampoong department store disaster
Vom: 28.6.2023 -
First reports of Ebola
Vom: 27.6.2023 -
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Vom: 26.6.2023 -
My dad played golf on the moon
Vom: 23.6.2023 -
The Empire Windrush arrives
Vom: 22.6.2023 -
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
Vom: 21.6.2023 -
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Vom: 20.6.2023 -
Uprising in East Germany
Vom: 19.6.2023 -
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Vom: 16.6.2023 -
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Vom: 15.6.2023 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Vom: 14.6.2023 -
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Vom: 13.6.2023 -
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Vom: 12.6.2023
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.