Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
Gepubliceerd: 5-9-2025 -
World's first womb transplant baby
Gepubliceerd: 4-9-2025 -
The Chindits
Gepubliceerd: 3-9-2025 -
The founding of USAID
Gepubliceerd: 2-9-2025 -
Discovering the Titanic
Gepubliceerd: 1-9-2025 -
John Lennon's final headline concerts
Gepubliceerd: 29-8-2025 -
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Gepubliceerd: 28-8-2025 -
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Gepubliceerd: 27-8-2025 -
Creating CAPTCHA
Gepubliceerd: 26-8-2025 -
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Gepubliceerd: 25-8-2025 -
Geneva Conventions
Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2025 -
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
Gepubliceerd: 21-8-2025 -
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2025 -
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2025 -
Spot the Dog
Gepubliceerd: 18-8-2025 -
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Gepubliceerd: 15-8-2025 -
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Gepubliceerd: 14-8-2025 -
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Gepubliceerd: 13-8-2025 -
Borobudur Temple
Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2025 -
The Santa Cruz Massacre
Gepubliceerd: 11-8-2025
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.
