Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
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Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
Gepubliceerd: 14-3-2025 -
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
Gepubliceerd: 13-3-2025 -
The Capitol Crawl
Gepubliceerd: 12-3-2025 -
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
Gepubliceerd: 11-3-2025 -
The invention of GPS
Gepubliceerd: 10-3-2025 -
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Gepubliceerd: 7-3-2025 -
The Great Toyota War
Gepubliceerd: 6-3-2025 -
The US invasion of Panama
Gepubliceerd: 5-3-2025 -
The invention of the shopping trolley
Gepubliceerd: 4-3-2025 -
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Gepubliceerd: 3-3-2025 -
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Gepubliceerd: 28-2-2025 -
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Gepubliceerd: 27-2-2025 -
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
Gepubliceerd: 26-2-2025 -
The Nellie massacre
Gepubliceerd: 25-2-2025 -
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Gepubliceerd: 24-2-2025 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Gepubliceerd: 21-2-2025 -
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Gepubliceerd: 20-2-2025 -
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Gepubliceerd: 19-2-2025 -
Bo: The death of a language
Gepubliceerd: 18-2-2025 -
The world's longest kiss
Gepubliceerd: 17-2-2025
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.
