Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1493 Episodo
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How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Publicado: 4/6/2021 -
Afghanistan's poppy problem
Publicado: 3/6/2021 -
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
Publicado: 2/6/2021 -
The killing of Pablo Escobar
Publicado: 1/6/2021 -
The war on drugs
Publicado: 31/5/2021 -
The Tulsa Race Massacre
Publicado: 28/5/2021 -
Rock concert for Chernobyl
Publicado: 27/5/2021 -
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Publicado: 26/5/2021 -
The first Arab woman pilot
Publicado: 25/5/2021 -
The strike that shocked India
Publicado: 24/5/2021 -
Fighting forced marriage in war
Publicado: 21/5/2021 -
Saving the world's wetlands
Publicado: 20/5/2021 -
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Publicado: 18/5/2021 -
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
Publicado: 17/5/2021 -
China's Democracy Wall
Publicado: 14/5/2021 -
The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'
Publicado: 13/5/2021 -
The Jewish exodus from Iraq
Publicado: 12/5/2021 -
Legalising contraception in Ireland
Publicado: 11/5/2021 -
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
Publicado: 10/5/2021 -
The Great Wine Fraud
Publicado: 6/5/2021
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.
