Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1492 Episodo
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China's trailblazing foreign students
Publicado: 2/7/2021 -
The Chinese Communist Party
Publicado: 1/7/2021 -
The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
Publicado: 29/6/2021 -
Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings
Publicado: 28/6/2021 -
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Publicado: 25/6/2021 -
China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
Publicado: 24/6/2021 -
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
Publicado: 23/6/2021 -
Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
Publicado: 22/6/2021 -
The Stonewall Inn
Publicado: 21/6/2021 -
China's 'Economic Miracle'
Publicado: 18/6/2021 -
The Trabant
Publicado: 17/6/2021 -
The police rape interview that shocked Britain
Publicado: 16/6/2021 -
Mindfulness for the masses
Publicado: 14/6/2021 -
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
Publicado: 14/6/2021 -
The Fall of Madrid
Publicado: 11/6/2021 -
The elections that Hamas won
Publicado: 10/6/2021 -
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
Publicado: 9/6/2021 -
Tunisia’s legal brothels
Publicado: 8/6/2021 -
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
Publicado: 7/6/2021 -
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Publicado: 4/6/2021
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.
