Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1501 Folgen
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When the Taliban took Kabul
Vom: 15.7.2021 -
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Vom: 14.7.2021 -
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
Vom: 13.7.2021 -
The race for the jet engine
Vom: 12.7.2021 -
The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Vom: 9.7.2021 -
The first World Romani Congress
Vom: 8.7.2021 -
The famine in North Korea
Vom: 7.7.2021 -
Britain's wartime gold
Vom: 6.7.2021 -
Cuba's blindness epidemic
Vom: 5.7.2021 -
China's trailblazing foreign students
Vom: 2.7.2021 -
The Chinese Communist Party
Vom: 1.7.2021 -
The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
Vom: 29.6.2021 -
Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings
Vom: 28.6.2021 -
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Vom: 25.6.2021 -
China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
Vom: 24.6.2021 -
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
Vom: 23.6.2021 -
Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
Vom: 22.6.2021 -
The Stonewall Inn
Vom: 21.6.2021 -
China's 'Economic Miracle'
Vom: 18.6.2021 -
The Trabant
Vom: 17.6.2021
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.
