Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1578 Folgen
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The acquittal of OJ Simpson
Vom: 3.10.2025 -
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
Vom: 2.10.2025 -
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
Vom: 1.10.2025 -
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
Vom: 30.9.2025 -
The Cradock Four killings
Vom: 29.9.2025 -
Guinea stadium massacre
Vom: 26.9.2025 -
The secretary who made millions from her typos
Vom: 25.9.2025 -
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
Vom: 24.9.2025 -
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
Vom: 23.9.2025 -
The start of Scouting
Vom: 22.9.2025 -
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
Vom: 19.9.2025 -
The Aswan High Dam
Vom: 18.9.2025 -
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Vom: 17.9.2025 -
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Vom: 16.9.2025 -
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
Vom: 15.9.2025 -
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
Vom: 12.9.2025 -
9/11: The generosity of Gander
Vom: 10.9.2025 -
The story behind The Peter Principle book
Vom: 10.9.2025 -
The Enabling Act
Vom: 9.9.2025 -
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
Vom: 8.9.2025
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.
