Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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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 -
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
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.
