Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1492 Episodo
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The first modern electric car
Publicado: 31/8/2021 -
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Publicado: 27/8/2021 -
Syria's rebel poet
Publicado: 26/8/2021 -
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Publicado: 25/8/2021 -
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
Publicado: 24/8/2021 -
John Maynard Keynes
Publicado: 23/8/2021 -
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Publicado: 20/8/2021 -
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
Publicado: 19/8/2021 -
India's secret freedom radio
Publicado: 18/8/2021 -
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
Publicado: 17/8/2021 -
The man who coined the term genocide
Publicado: 16/8/2021 -
Inside an East German jail
Publicado: 13/8/2021 -
East Germany's nudists
Publicado: 12/8/2021 -
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Publicado: 11/8/2021 -
Escaping from East Berlin
Publicado: 10/8/2021 -
The building of the Berlin Wall
Publicado: 9/8/2021 -
Gay activism in 1990s India
Publicado: 6/8/2021 -
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Publicado: 5/8/2021 -
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Publicado: 4/8/2021 -
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Publicado: 3/8/2021
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.
