Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Publicado: 22/10/2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Publicado: 21/10/2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Publicado: 18/10/2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Publicado: 17/10/2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Publicado: 16/10/2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Publicado: 15/10/2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Publicado: 14/10/2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Publicado: 11/10/2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Publicado: 10/10/2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Publicado: 9/10/2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Publicado: 8/10/2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Publicado: 7/10/2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Publicado: 4/10/2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Publicado: 3/10/2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Publicado: 2/10/2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Publicado: 1/10/2024 -
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
Publicado: 30/9/2024 -
The Estonia ferry disaster
Publicado: 27/9/2024 -
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Publicado: 26/9/2024 -
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Publicado: 25/9/2024
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.
