Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Gepubliceerd: 27-11-2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Gepubliceerd: 26-11-2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Gepubliceerd: 25-11-2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Gepubliceerd: 22-11-2024 -
Lord of the Flies
Gepubliceerd: 21-11-2024 -
Handover of Macau
Gepubliceerd: 20-11-2024 -
The Siege of Yarmouk
Gepubliceerd: 19-11-2024 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Gepubliceerd: 18-11-2024 -
German naturists
Gepubliceerd: 15-11-2024 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Gepubliceerd: 14-11-2024 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Gepubliceerd: 13-11-2024 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Gepubliceerd: 12-11-2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Gepubliceerd: 11-11-2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Gepubliceerd: 8-11-2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Gepubliceerd: 7-11-2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Gepubliceerd: 6-11-2024 -
In exile from Iran
Gepubliceerd: 5-11-2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Gepubliceerd: 4-11-2024 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Gepubliceerd: 1-11-2024 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Gepubliceerd: 31-10-2024
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.
