Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1492 Episodo
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Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Publicado: 1/8/2025 -
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Publicado: 31/7/2025 -
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Publicado: 30/7/2025 -
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
Publicado: 29/7/2025 -
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
Publicado: 28/7/2025 -
A Chorus Line
Publicado: 25/7/2025 -
The invention of Kevlar
Publicado: 24/7/2025 -
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
Publicado: 23/7/2025 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publicado: 22/7/2025 -
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Publicado: 21/7/2025 -
Italo disco
Publicado: 18/7/2025 -
The 'Turbot War'
Publicado: 17/7/2025 -
Greece’s debt crisis
Publicado: 16/7/2025 -
The Iran nuclear deal
Publicado: 15/7/2025 -
The start of Voice of America
Publicado: 14/7/2025 -
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Publicado: 11/7/2025 -
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Publicado: 10/7/2025 -
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
Publicado: 9/7/2025 -
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Publicado: 8/7/2025 -
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Publicado: 7/7/2025
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.
