Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1495 Episodo
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Discovering the Jet Stream
Publicado: 9/4/2021 -
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Publicado: 8/4/2021 -
David Attenborough's first expedition
Publicado: 7/4/2021 -
Mexico's female serial killer
Publicado: 6/4/2021 -
The women who reclaimed the night
Publicado: 5/4/2021 -
Black Jesus
Publicado: 2/4/2021 -
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Publicado: 1/4/2021 -
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
Publicado: 31/3/2021 -
When the prisoners ran the prison
Publicado: 30/3/2021 -
Anorexia nervosa
Publicado: 29/3/2021 -
South Africa takes on big pharma
Publicado: 25/3/2021 -
The woman who got America talking about sex
Publicado: 24/3/2021 -
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
Publicado: 23/3/2021 -
The Ulster Workers' Strike
Publicado: 22/3/2021 -
The dirtiest chess match in history
Publicado: 19/3/2021 -
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Publicado: 18/3/2021 -
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
Publicado: 17/3/2021 -
Paris is Burning
Publicado: 15/3/2021 -
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Publicado: 11/3/2021 -
Jane: The underground abortion network
Publicado: 10/3/2021
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.
