Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Mongolian revolution
Publicado: 12/12/2022 -
Creating Teletubbies
Publicado: 9/12/2022 -
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
Publicado: 8/12/2022 -
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Publicado: 7/12/2022 -
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Publicado: 6/12/2022 -
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Publicado: 5/12/2022 -
Miss World protest
Publicado: 2/12/2022 -
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Publicado: 1/12/2022 -
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
Publicado: 30/11/2022 -
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Publicado: 29/11/2022 -
Mombasa terror attacks
Publicado: 28/11/2022 -
How cat's eyes were invented
Publicado: 25/11/2022 -
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
Publicado: 24/11/2022 -
When Sweden’s roads went right
Publicado: 23/11/2022 -
First women’s minister in Iran
Publicado: 22/11/2022 -
The invention of the seat belt
Publicado: 21/11/2022 -
Qatar's first female published author
Publicado: 18/11/2022 -
First Emirati female teacher
Publicado: 17/11/2022 -
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Publicado: 16/11/2022 -
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Publicado: 15/11/2022
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.
