Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1472 Afleveringen
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Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Gepubliceerd: 4-7-2025 -
Back to the Future
Gepubliceerd: 3-7-2025 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Gepubliceerd: 2-7-2025 -
Cecil the lion
Gepubliceerd: 1-7-2025 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Gepubliceerd: 30-6-2025 -
Italian happiness trains
Gepubliceerd: 27-6-2025 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Gepubliceerd: 26-6-2025 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Gepubliceerd: 25-6-2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Gepubliceerd: 24-6-2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Gepubliceerd: 23-6-2025 -
Making Jaws
Gepubliceerd: 20-6-2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Gepubliceerd: 19-6-2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Gepubliceerd: 18-6-2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Gepubliceerd: 17-6-2025 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Gepubliceerd: 16-6-2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Gepubliceerd: 13-6-2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Gepubliceerd: 12-6-2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Gepubliceerd: 11-6-2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Gepubliceerd: 10-6-2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Gepubliceerd: 9-6-2025
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.
