Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1503 Folgen
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The battle of Midway
Vom: 5.8.2020 -
The internment of Japanese Americans
Vom: 4.8.2020 -
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Vom: 3.8.2020 -
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Vom: 31.7.2020 -
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
Vom: 30.7.2020 -
Adrift for 76 days
Vom: 29.7.2020 -
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
Vom: 28.7.2020 -
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Vom: 27.7.2020 -
The fastest vaccine ever developed
Vom: 24.7.2020 -
The first safe house for Afghan women
Vom: 23.7.2020 -
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
Vom: 22.7.2020 -
The Million Man March
Vom: 21.7.2020 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Vom: 20.7.2020 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Vom: 17.7.2020 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Vom: 16.7.2020 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Vom: 15.7.2020 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Vom: 14.7.2020 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Vom: 13.7.2020 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Vom: 10.7.2020 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Vom: 9.7.2020
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.
