Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Publicado: 7/5/2024 -
Friends: The making of a smash hit
Publicado: 6/5/2024 -
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Publicado: 3/5/2024 -
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
Publicado: 2/5/2024 -
How to win friends and influence people
Publicado: 1/5/2024 -
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Publicado: 30/4/2024 -
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Publicado: 29/4/2024 -
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Publicado: 26/4/2024 -
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Publicado: 25/4/2024 -
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Publicado: 24/4/2024 -
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
Publicado: 23/4/2024 -
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Publicado: 22/4/2024 -
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Publicado: 19/4/2024 -
Deadly Everest avalanche
Publicado: 18/4/2024 -
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
Publicado: 17/4/2024 -
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Publicado: 16/4/2024 -
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Publicado: 15/4/2024 -
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Publicado: 12/4/2024 -
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
Publicado: 11/4/2024 -
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
Publicado: 10/4/2024
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.
