Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
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South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Gepubliceerd: 2-10-2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Gepubliceerd: 1-10-2024 -
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
Gepubliceerd: 30-9-2024 -
The Estonia ferry disaster
Gepubliceerd: 27-9-2024 -
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Gepubliceerd: 26-9-2024 -
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Gepubliceerd: 25-9-2024 -
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
Gepubliceerd: 24-9-2024 -
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Gepubliceerd: 23-9-2024 -
Designing the Google logo
Gepubliceerd: 20-9-2024 -
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
Gepubliceerd: 19-9-2024 -
India’s plague outbreak
Gepubliceerd: 18-9-2024 -
Camouflaging Leningrad
Gepubliceerd: 17-9-2024 -
The invention of the CT scanner
Gepubliceerd: 16-9-2024 -
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Gepubliceerd: 13-9-2024 -
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Gepubliceerd: 12-9-2024 -
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Gepubliceerd: 11-9-2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Gepubliceerd: 10-9-2024 -
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Gepubliceerd: 9-9-2024 -
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
Gepubliceerd: 6-9-2024 -
Apollo 13
Gepubliceerd: 5-9-2024
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.
