Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1500 Episodo
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The end of the US HIV travel ban
Publicado: 29/11/2024 -
The deepest man-made hole in the world
Publicado: 28/11/2024 -
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Publicado: 27/11/2024 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Publicado: 26/11/2024 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Publicado: 25/11/2024 -
Creation of the UFC
Publicado: 22/11/2024 -
Lord of the Flies
Publicado: 21/11/2024 -
Handover of Macau
Publicado: 20/11/2024 -
The Siege of Yarmouk
Publicado: 19/11/2024 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Publicado: 18/11/2024 -
German naturists
Publicado: 15/11/2024 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Publicado: 14/11/2024 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Publicado: 13/11/2024 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Publicado: 12/11/2024 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Publicado: 11/11/2024 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Publicado: 8/11/2024 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Publicado: 7/11/2024 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Publicado: 6/11/2024 -
In exile from Iran
Publicado: 5/11/2024 -
Iran hostage crisis
Publicado: 4/11/2024
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.
