Witness History
Een podcast door BBC World Service
1518 Afleveringen
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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 -
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
Gepubliceerd: 17-1-2025 -
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Gepubliceerd: 16-1-2025 -
Kobe earthquake
Gepubliceerd: 15-1-2025 -
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Gepubliceerd: 14-1-2025 -
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
Gepubliceerd: 13-1-2025 -
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
Gepubliceerd: 10-1-2025 -
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Gepubliceerd: 9-1-2025 -
The invention of the hotel key card
Gepubliceerd: 8-1-2025 -
Charlie Hebdo attack
Gepubliceerd: 7-1-2025 -
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Gepubliceerd: 2-1-2025 -
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Gepubliceerd: 1-1-2025 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Gepubliceerd: 31-12-2024 -
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Gepubliceerd: 30-12-2024 -
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
Gepubliceerd: 27-12-2024
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.
