Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Formation of the United Arab Emirates
Publicado: 14/11/2022 -
The child evacuees of World War Two
Publicado: 11/11/2022 -
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
Publicado: 10/11/2022 -
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
Publicado: 9/11/2022 -
First rape crisis centres in the US
Publicado: 8/11/2022 -
Polynesian Panthers
Publicado: 7/11/2022 -
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Publicado: 4/11/2022 -
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Publicado: 3/11/2022 -
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Publicado: 2/11/2022 -
Albania’s Stalinist purges
Publicado: 1/11/2022 -
The Little Black Book survival guide
Publicado: 31/10/2022 -
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Publicado: 28/10/2022 -
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Publicado: 27/10/2022 -
Theatre siege in Moscow
Publicado: 26/10/2022 -
The Iranian Revolution and women
Publicado: 25/10/2022 -
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Publicado: 24/10/2022 -
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Publicado: 21/10/2022 -
Cuba's boxing ban
Publicado: 20/10/2022 -
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Publicado: 19/10/2022 -
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Publicado: 18/10/2022
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.
