Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
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The end of the Irish marriage bar
Gepubliceerd: 4-9-2024 -
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
Gepubliceerd: 3-9-2024 -
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
Gepubliceerd: 2-9-2024 -
The woman who spoke to the space station
Gepubliceerd: 30-8-2024 -
Guatemala's disappeared
Gepubliceerd: 29-8-2024 -
Waris Dirie
Gepubliceerd: 28-8-2024 -
The writer of Mary Poppins
Gepubliceerd: 27-8-2024 -
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Gepubliceerd: 26-8-2024 -
Spain's La Tomatina
Gepubliceerd: 23-8-2024 -
India’s first female bartender
Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2024 -
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2024 -
Nazis in Egypt
Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2024 -
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2024 -
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
Gepubliceerd: 16-8-2024 -
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Gepubliceerd: 15-8-2024 -
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
Gepubliceerd: 14-8-2024 -
The last ever Olympic art competition
Gepubliceerd: 13-8-2024 -
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2024 -
The first televised US presidential debate
Gepubliceerd: 9-8-2024 -
President Richard Nixon resigns
Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2024
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.
