Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Gepubliceerd: 6-6-2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Gepubliceerd: 5-6-2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Gepubliceerd: 4-6-2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Gepubliceerd: 3-6-2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Gepubliceerd: 2-6-2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Gepubliceerd: 30-5-2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Gepubliceerd: 29-5-2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Gepubliceerd: 28-5-2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Gepubliceerd: 27-5-2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Gepubliceerd: 26-5-2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Gepubliceerd: 23-5-2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Gepubliceerd: 22-5-2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Gepubliceerd: 21-5-2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Gepubliceerd: 20-5-2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Gepubliceerd: 19-5-2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Gepubliceerd: 16-5-2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Gepubliceerd: 15-5-2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Gepubliceerd: 14-5-2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Gepubliceerd: 13-5-2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Gepubliceerd: 12-5-2025
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.
