Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
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Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Gepubliceerd: 11-4-2025 -
Oklahoma City bombing
Gepubliceerd: 10-4-2025 -
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
Gepubliceerd: 9-4-2025 -
The Reichstag fire
Gepubliceerd: 8-4-2025 -
The UN retreat from Somalia
Gepubliceerd: 7-4-2025 -
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
Gepubliceerd: 4-4-2025 -
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Gepubliceerd: 3-4-2025 -
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
Gepubliceerd: 2-4-2025 -
The invention of superglue
Gepubliceerd: 1-4-2025 -
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
Gepubliceerd: 31-3-2025 -
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Gepubliceerd: 28-3-2025 -
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
Gepubliceerd: 27-3-2025 -
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Gepubliceerd: 26-3-2025 -
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
Gepubliceerd: 25-3-2025 -
The Germanwings plane crash
Gepubliceerd: 24-3-2025 -
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
Gepubliceerd: 21-3-2025 -
The historic handshake in space
Gepubliceerd: 20-3-2025 -
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Gepubliceerd: 19-3-2025 -
First spacewalk
Gepubliceerd: 18-3-2025 -
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Gepubliceerd: 17-3-2025
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.
