Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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The assassination of King Faisal
Publicado: 19/12/2023 -
Tsunami devastates Samoa
Publicado: 18/12/2023 -
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Publicado: 15/12/2023 -
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Publicado: 14/12/2023 -
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Publicado: 13/12/2023 -
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Publicado: 12/12/2023 -
Murder of the Romanovs
Publicado: 11/12/2023 -
The release of DOOM
Publicado: 8/12/2023 -
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
Publicado: 7/12/2023 -
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Publicado: 6/12/2023 -
La Haine: The film that shocked France
Publicado: 4/12/2023 -
World's first solar-heated home
Publicado: 1/12/2023 -
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Publicado: 30/11/2023 -
The bird that defied extinction
Publicado: 28/11/2023 -
Cabbage Patch Kids
Publicado: 27/11/2023 -
The Mumbai attacks
Publicado: 24/11/2023 -
The Paris heatwave
Publicado: 23/11/2023 -
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
Publicado: 22/11/2023 -
The invention of bubble tea
Publicado: 21/11/2023 -
The independence of Zambia
Publicado: 20/11/2023
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.