Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1452 Afleveringen
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Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Gepubliceerd: 14-2-2025 -
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Gepubliceerd: 13-2-2025 -
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Gepubliceerd: 12-2-2025 -
Eisenhower's farewell address
Gepubliceerd: 11-2-2025 -
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish civil war
Gepubliceerd: 10-2-2025 -
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
Gepubliceerd: 7-2-2025 -
The first global case of coral bleaching
Gepubliceerd: 6-2-2025 -
Cuban blindness
Gepubliceerd: 5-2-2025 -
Oradour massacre
Gepubliceerd: 4-2-2025 -
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
Gepubliceerd: 3-2-2025 -
English TV lessons in China go primetime
Gepubliceerd: 31-1-2025 -
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Gepubliceerd: 30-1-2025 -
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
Gepubliceerd: 29-1-2025 -
The Baltic chain protest
Gepubliceerd: 28-1-2025 -
The Milltown Cemetery attack
Gepubliceerd: 27-1-2025 -
The launch of Windows 95
Gepubliceerd: 24-1-2025 -
Replacing the Panchen Lama
Gepubliceerd: 23-1-2025 -
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Gepubliceerd: 22-1-2025 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Gepubliceerd: 21-1-2025 -
Hunting the Unabomber
Gepubliceerd: 20-1-2025
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.