Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Publicado: 6/3/2023 -
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
Publicado: 3/3/2023 -
The museum at the end of the world
Publicado: 2/3/2023 -
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Publicado: 1/3/2023 -
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Publicado: 28/2/2023 -
Wounded Knee siege
Publicado: 27/2/2023 -
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Publicado: 24/2/2023 -
Families interned in WW2 China
Publicado: 23/2/2023 -
The invention of Semtex
Publicado: 22/2/2023 -
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Publicado: 21/2/2023 -
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
Publicado: 20/2/2023 -
First winter ascent of Everest
Publicado: 17/2/2023 -
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
Publicado: 16/2/2023 -
'I developed Pokémon'
Publicado: 15/2/2023 -
First Danish queen for 600 years
Publicado: 14/2/2023 -
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
Publicado: 13/2/2023 -
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
Publicado: 10/2/2023 -
The Pope and Jews
Publicado: 9/2/2023 -
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Publicado: 8/2/2023 -
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
Publicado: 7/2/2023
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.
