Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Publicado: 9/4/2024 -
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Publicado: 8/4/2024 -
Bonus: The Black 14
Publicado: 6/4/2024 -
Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
Publicado: 5/4/2024 -
The Bluetooth story
Publicado: 4/4/2024 -
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
Publicado: 3/4/2024 -
The man who invented the seat belt
Publicado: 2/4/2024 -
Fifty years of Abba
Publicado: 31/3/2024 -
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
Publicado: 29/3/2024 -
The founding of Nato
Publicado: 28/3/2024 -
Britain's first beach for nudists
Publicado: 27/3/2024 -
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Publicado: 26/3/2024 -
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Publicado: 25/3/2024 -
Wham! in China
Publicado: 22/3/2024 -
Discovering the Terracotta Army
Publicado: 21/3/2024 -
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Publicado: 20/3/2024 -
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Publicado: 19/3/2024 -
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
Publicado: 18/3/2024 -
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Publicado: 15/3/2024 -
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Publicado: 14/3/2024
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.
