Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1503 Episodo
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Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Publicado: 17/7/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Publicado: 16/7/2024 -
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Publicado: 15/7/2024 -
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Publicado: 12/7/2024 -
Italy's 'poison ships'
Publicado: 11/7/2024 -
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
Publicado: 10/7/2024 -
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Publicado: 9/7/2024 -
How the air fryer was invented
Publicado: 8/7/2024 -
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Publicado: 5/7/2024 -
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Publicado: 4/7/2024 -
Georgia’s political crisis
Publicado: 3/7/2024 -
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Publicado: 2/7/2024 -
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
Publicado: 1/7/2024 -
I designed Hello Kitty
Publicado: 29/6/2024 -
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Publicado: 27/6/2024 -
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Publicado: 26/6/2024 -
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
Publicado: 25/6/2024 -
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Publicado: 24/6/2024 -
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
Publicado: 21/6/2024 -
The first mega cruise ship
Publicado: 20/6/2024
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.
