Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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1965 Singaporean independence
Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2025 -
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
Gepubliceerd: 7-8-2025 -
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
Gepubliceerd: 6-8-2025 -
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Gepubliceerd: 5-8-2025 -
Nagasaki bomb
Gepubliceerd: 4-8-2025 -
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Gepubliceerd: 3-8-2025 -
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Gepubliceerd: 1-8-2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Gepubliceerd: 31-7-2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Gepubliceerd: 30-7-2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Gepubliceerd: 29-7-2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Gepubliceerd: 28-7-2025 -
A Chorus Line
Gepubliceerd: 25-7-2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Gepubliceerd: 24-7-2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Gepubliceerd: 23-7-2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Gepubliceerd: 22-7-2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Gepubliceerd: 21-7-2025 -
Italo disco
Gepubliceerd: 18-7-2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Gepubliceerd: 17-7-2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Gepubliceerd: 16-7-2025 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Gepubliceerd: 15-7-2025
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.
