Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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The Ken Burns Effect
Gepubliceerd: 30-10-2024 -
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
Gepubliceerd: 29-10-2024 -
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Gepubliceerd: 28-10-2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Gepubliceerd: 25-10-2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Gepubliceerd: 24-10-2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Gepubliceerd: 23-10-2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Gepubliceerd: 22-10-2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Gepubliceerd: 21-10-2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Gepubliceerd: 18-10-2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Gepubliceerd: 17-10-2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Gepubliceerd: 16-10-2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Gepubliceerd: 15-10-2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Gepubliceerd: 14-10-2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Gepubliceerd: 11-10-2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Gepubliceerd: 10-10-2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Gepubliceerd: 9-10-2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Gepubliceerd: 8-10-2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Gepubliceerd: 7-10-2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Gepubliceerd: 4-10-2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Gepubliceerd: 3-10-2024
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.
