Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1503 Folgen
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The Watergate scandal
Vom: 28.10.2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Vom: 27.10.2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Vom: 26.10.2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Vom: 23.10.2020 -
The missing victims of apartheid
Vom: 22.10.2020 -
The Cutter Incident
Vom: 21.10.2020 -
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Vom: 20.10.2020 -
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Vom: 19.10.2020 -
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Vom: 16.10.2020 -
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vom: 15.10.2020 -
The last of the Kazakh herders
Vom: 14.10.2020 -
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
Vom: 13.10.2020 -
The launch of CNN
Vom: 12.10.2020 -
The Battle of Lewisham
Vom: 9.10.2020 -
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Vom: 8.10.2020 -
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Vom: 7.10.2020 -
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Vom: 6.10.2020 -
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
Vom: 5.10.2020 -
The house by the lake
Vom: 2.10.2020 -
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Vom: 1.10.2020
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.
