Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Osmondmania
Publicado: 20/10/2023 -
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Publicado: 19/10/2023 -
Mexico’s murdered women
Publicado: 18/10/2023 -
Rana Plaza building collapse
Publicado: 17/10/2023 -
Cambodian peace walk
Publicado: 16/10/2023 -
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
Publicado: 13/10/2023 -
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
Publicado: 12/10/2023 -
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
Publicado: 11/10/2023 -
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
Publicado: 10/10/2023 -
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Publicado: 9/10/2023 -
Protectors of the Amazon
Publicado: 6/10/2023 -
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Publicado: 5/10/2023 -
Nigeria strikes oil
Publicado: 4/10/2023 -
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
Publicado: 3/10/2023 -
The oil crisis of 1973
Publicado: 2/10/2023 -
The first cat cafe
Publicado: 29/9/2023 -
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy
Publicado: 28/9/2023 -
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia
Publicado: 27/9/2023 -
Concorde's first flight
Publicado: 26/9/2023 -
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster
Publicado: 25/9/2023
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.
