Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
Publicado: 28/7/2023 -
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
Publicado: 27/7/2023 -
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Publicado: 26/7/2023 -
Brain: The first personal computer virus
Publicado: 25/7/2023 -
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
Publicado: 24/7/2023 -
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
Publicado: 21/7/2023 -
The birth of Barbie
Publicado: 20/7/2023 -
Japan surrenders in China
Publicado: 19/7/2023 -
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Publicado: 18/7/2023 -
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Publicado: 17/7/2023 -
Creating the first emoji
Publicado: 14/7/2023 -
When disposable nappies were invented
Publicado: 13/7/2023 -
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Publicado: 11/7/2023 -
Invention of the ballpoint pen
Publicado: 10/7/2023 -
A right royal night out
Publicado: 7/7/2023 -
When tourism came to the Maldives
Publicado: 6/7/2023 -
The National Health Service begins
Publicado: 5/7/2023 -
Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
Publicado: 4/7/2023 -
The trial of John Demjanjuk
Publicado: 3/7/2023 -
I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
Publicado: 30/6/2023
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.
