Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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The year of the vuvuzela
Publicado: 22/9/2023 -
Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack
Publicado: 21/9/2023 -
The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'
Publicado: 20/9/2023 -
Fighting for legal abortion in Italy
Publicado: 19/9/2023 -
Nazi eugenics
Publicado: 18/9/2023 -
The Ramallah concert
Publicado: 15/9/2023 -
The siege at the Church of the Nativity
Publicado: 14/9/2023 -
Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa
Publicado: 13/9/2023 -
Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed
Publicado: 12/9/2023 -
Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal
Publicado: 11/9/2023 -
Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup
Publicado: 8/9/2023 -
Organising Chile's 1973 military coup
Publicado: 7/9/2023 -
Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh
Publicado: 6/9/2023 -
Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'
Publicado: 5/9/2023 -
Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Publicado: 4/9/2023 -
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Publicado: 1/9/2023 -
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Publicado: 31/8/2023 -
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
Publicado: 30/8/2023 -
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
Publicado: 29/8/2023 -
The Bristol bus boycott
Publicado: 28/8/2023
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.
