Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Publicado: 29/6/2023 -
Sampoong department store disaster
Publicado: 28/6/2023 -
First reports of Ebola
Publicado: 27/6/2023 -
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Publicado: 26/6/2023 -
My dad played golf on the moon
Publicado: 23/6/2023 -
The Empire Windrush arrives
Publicado: 22/6/2023 -
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
Publicado: 21/6/2023 -
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Publicado: 20/6/2023 -
Uprising in East Germany
Publicado: 19/6/2023 -
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Publicado: 16/6/2023 -
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Publicado: 15/6/2023 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Publicado: 14/6/2023 -
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Publicado: 13/6/2023 -
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Publicado: 12/6/2023 -
1955 Le Mans disaster
Publicado: 9/6/2023 -
Last communist march before Hitler
Publicado: 8/6/2023 -
Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
Publicado: 6/6/2023 -
Inuit children taken from families
Publicado: 5/6/2023 -
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
Publicado: 2/6/2023 -
Tragedy on Everest
Publicado: 1/6/2023
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.
