Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1472 Folgen
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Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Vom: 11.4.2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Vom: 10.4.2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Vom: 9.4.2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Vom: 8.4.2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Vom: 7.4.2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Vom: 4.4.2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Vom: 3.4.2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Vom: 2.4.2025 -
The invention of superglue
Vom: 1.4.2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Vom: 31.3.2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Vom: 28.3.2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Vom: 27.3.2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Vom: 26.3.2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Vom: 25.3.2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Vom: 24.3.2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Vom: 21.3.2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Vom: 20.3.2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Vom: 19.3.2025 -
First spacewalk
Vom: 18.3.2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Vom: 17.3.2025
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.
