Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1496 Folgen
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The miracle of walking
Vom: 1.11.2021 -
Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers
Vom: 29.10.2021 -
The child climate activist of the 1990s
Vom: 28.10.2021 -
How the world woke up to climate change
Vom: 27.10.2021 -
The world's first environment conference
Vom: 26.10.2021 -
Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'
Vom: 25.10.2021 -
Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
Vom: 22.10.2021 -
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Vom: 21.10.2021 -
Polish refugees in Africa
Vom: 20.10.2021 -
The mysterious death of Samora Machel
Vom: 19.10.2021 -
The first transgender minister in the Church of England
Vom: 18.10.2021 -
The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist
Vom: 15.10.2021 -
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Vom: 14.10.2021 -
The story of 'Baby Jessica'
Vom: 13.10.2021 -
Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally
Vom: 12.10.2021 -
Winning the Arabic Booker prize
Vom: 11.10.2021 -
Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer
Vom: 8.10.2021 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Vom: 7.10.2021 -
A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
Vom: 6.10.2021 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Vom: 5.10.2021
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.
