Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1503 Episodo
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The beginning of Benidorm
Publicado: 19/6/2024 -
How Cancún became a tourist destination
Publicado: 18/6/2024 -
The first budget transatlantic flights
Publicado: 17/6/2024 -
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Publicado: 14/6/2024 -
Kielland disaster
Publicado: 13/6/2024 -
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Publicado: 12/6/2024 -
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Publicado: 11/6/2024 -
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
Publicado: 10/6/2024 -
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Publicado: 7/6/2024 -
Saving lives on D-Day
Publicado: 6/6/2024 -
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Publicado: 5/6/2024 -
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
Publicado: 4/6/2024 -
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Publicado: 3/6/2024 -
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Publicado: 31/5/2024 -
The Flint water crisis
Publicado: 30/5/2024 -
The first Aboriginal MP
Publicado: 29/5/2024 -
The first ever quintuplets
Publicado: 28/5/2024 -
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
Publicado: 27/5/2024 -
How Air Jordans were created
Publicado: 24/5/2024 -
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Publicado: 23/5/2024
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.
