Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1578 Afleveringen
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Ravi and George
Gepubliceerd: 28-11-2025 -
India goes to the UN
Gepubliceerd: 27-11-2025 -
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
Gepubliceerd: 26-11-2025 -
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Gepubliceerd: 25-11-2025 -
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
Gepubliceerd: 24-11-2025 -
How the Bosnian war ended
Gepubliceerd: 21-11-2025 -
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
Gepubliceerd: 20-11-2025 -
The death of Franco
Gepubliceerd: 19-11-2025 -
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Gepubliceerd: 18-11-2025 -
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
Gepubliceerd: 17-11-2025 -
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Gepubliceerd: 14-11-2025 -
Bataclan attack in Paris
Gepubliceerd: 13-11-2025 -
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Gepubliceerd: 12-11-2025 -
Birth of the G7
Gepubliceerd: 11-11-2025 -
Breaking the sound barrier
Gepubliceerd: 10-11-2025 -
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Gepubliceerd: 7-11-2025 -
The ‘father of e-books’
Gepubliceerd: 6-11-2025 -
The creation of Miffy
Gepubliceerd: 5-11-2025 -
President Clinton is impeached
Gepubliceerd: 4-11-2025 -
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Gepubliceerd: 3-11-2025
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.
