Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Gepubliceerd: 21-4-2025 -
The origin of World Book Day
Gepubliceerd: 18-4-2025 -
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
Gepubliceerd: 17-4-2025 -
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
Gepubliceerd: 16-4-2025 -
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
Gepubliceerd: 16-4-2025 -
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Gepubliceerd: 14-4-2025 -
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
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.
