Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1472 Episodo
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The doctor who helped her mother to die
Publicado: 24/11/2021 -
Europe's last smallpox epidemic
Publicado: 23/11/2021 -
The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt
Publicado: 22/11/2021 -
Sudan's October Revolution
Publicado: 18/11/2021 -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Publicado: 17/11/2021 -
The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic
Publicado: 16/11/2021 -
Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
Publicado: 15/11/2021 -
Shoot: A milestone in performance art
Publicado: 15/11/2021 -
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Publicado: 11/11/2021 -
Spying in Berlin
Publicado: 10/11/2021 -
Chanel No. 5
Publicado: 9/11/2021 -
Britain's Black Schools
Publicado: 8/11/2021 -
When Eritrea silenced its critics
Publicado: 5/11/2021 -
The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
Publicado: 4/11/2021 -
The enduring legend of Fu Manchu
Publicado: 3/11/2021 -
Judgement at Nuremberg
Publicado: 2/11/2021 -
The miracle of walking
Publicado: 1/11/2021 -
Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers
Publicado: 29/10/2021 -
The child climate activist of the 1990s
Publicado: 28/10/2021 -
How the world woke up to climate change
Publicado: 27/10/2021
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.
