Witness History
Ein Podcast von BBC World Service
1512 Folgen
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The Bristol bus boycott
Vom: 10.10.2019 -
The Notting Hill riots
Vom: 9.10.2019 -
The first black woman MP in Britain
Vom: 8.10.2019 -
Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK
Vom: 7.10.2019 -
China opens up to capitalism
Vom: 4.10.2019 -
The 1967 Hong Kong riots
Vom: 3.10.2019 -
Mao's Cultural Revolution
Vom: 2.10.2019 -
My memories of Chairman Mao
Vom: 1.10.2019 -
The birth of the People's Republic of China
Vom: 30.9.2019 -
The death of a matador
Vom: 27.9.2019 -
The Large Hadron Collider
Vom: 26.9.2019 -
Fighting the Islamic State group online
Vom: 25.9.2019
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.