Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1472 Folgen
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The World Festival of Black Arts
Vom: 26.5.2022 -
The museum of banned Russian art
Vom: 25.5.2022 -
The last days of Frida Kahlo
Vom: 24.5.2022 -
Meeting Picasso
Vom: 23.5.2022 -
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
Vom: 20.5.2022 -
Chasing the Marcos millions
Vom: 20.5.2022 -
Shanghai at War
Vom: 19.5.2022 -
The first McDonald's in Moscow
Vom: 18.5.2022 -
People Power in the Philippines
Vom: 16.5.2022 -
The war in Transnistria
Vom: 13.5.2022 -
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Vom: 11.5.2022 -
China opens up to capitalism
Vom: 10.5.2022 -
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Vom: 9.5.2022 -
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Vom: 6.5.2022 -
The chemistry of cannabis
Vom: 5.5.2022 -
Roe v Wade
Vom: 4.5.2022 -
Surviving the Falkands War
Vom: 3.5.2022 -
The sinking of the Belgrano
Vom: 2.5.2022 -
Algeria's rebel footballers
Vom: 29.4.2022 -
The Algerians who fought for France
Vom: 28.4.2022
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.