Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1512 Folgen
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The Bhagalpur blindings
Vom: 7.11.2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Vom: 6.11.2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Vom: 5.11.2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Vom: 4.11.2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Vom: 1.11.2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Vom: 31.10.2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Vom: 30.10.2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Vom: 29.10.2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Vom: 28.10.2019 -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Vom: 25.10.2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Vom: 24.10.2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Vom: 23.10.2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Vom: 22.10.2019 -
The legalisation of Solidarity
Vom: 21.10.2019 -
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Vom: 18.10.2019 -
Britain's worst nuclear accident
Vom: 17.10.2019 -
The man who fed the world
Vom: 16.10.2019 -
Mexico City slashes car use
Vom: 15.10.2019 -
Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
Vom: 14.10.2019 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Vom: 11.10.2019
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.
