Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1578 Afleveringen
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Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Gepubliceerd: 31-10-2025 -
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Gepubliceerd: 30-10-2025 -
Srebrenica massacre
Gepubliceerd: 29-10-2025 -
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Gepubliceerd: 28-10-2025 -
Death of a priest
Gepubliceerd: 27-10-2025 -
The man who invented the scratch card
Gepubliceerd: 24-10-2025 -
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
Gepubliceerd: 23-10-2025 -
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Gepubliceerd: 22-10-2025 -
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Gepubliceerd: 21-10-2025 -
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
Gepubliceerd: 20-10-2025 -
My aunt created The Moomins
Gepubliceerd: 17-10-2025 -
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
Gepubliceerd: 16-10-2025 -
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Gepubliceerd: 15-10-2025 -
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Gepubliceerd: 14-10-2025 -
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
Gepubliceerd: 13-10-2025 -
How BRICS got its name
Gepubliceerd: 10-10-2025 -
Japan surrenders in Beijing
Gepubliceerd: 9-10-2025 -
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
Gepubliceerd: 8-10-2025 -
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
Gepubliceerd: 7-10-2025 -
The home video war
Gepubliceerd: 6-10-2025
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.
