Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
Publicado: 27/4/2022 -
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Publicado: 26/4/2022 -
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Publicado: 25/4/2022 -
The battle for Kinder Scout
Publicado: 22/4/2022 -
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Publicado: 21/4/2022 -
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Publicado: 20/4/2022 -
Women's rights in Basra
Publicado: 19/4/2022 -
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
Publicado: 18/4/2022 -
The World Wide Web
Publicado: 15/4/2022 -
How Tinder changed the dating game
Publicado: 14/4/2022 -
Greece's Great Famine
Publicado: 13/4/2022 -
The largest war crimes trial in history
Publicado: 12/4/2022 -
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
Publicado: 11/4/2022 -
The Great American Grain Robbery
Publicado: 8/4/2022 -
The handshake in Space
Publicado: 7/4/2022 -
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
Publicado: 6/4/2022 -
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Publicado: 5/4/2022 -
Escaping a Maoist cult
Publicado: 1/4/2022 -
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Publicado: 31/3/2022 -
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Publicado: 30/3/2022
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.
