Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1496 Episodo
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Jane: The underground abortion network
Publicado: 10/3/2021 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Publicado: 9/3/2021 -
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Publicado: 8/3/2021 -
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
Publicado: 5/3/2021 -
The Sharpeville massacre
Publicado: 4/3/2021 -
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
Publicado: 3/3/2021 -
Refugee Island
Publicado: 2/3/2021 -
The world's deepest dive 11km down
Publicado: 1/3/2021 -
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
Publicado: 25/2/2021 -
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Publicado: 24/2/2021 -
Ireland's bank bailout
Publicado: 23/2/2021 -
Acid rain
Publicado: 22/2/2021 -
Mary Wilson
Publicado: 19/2/2021 -
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
Publicado: 18/2/2021 -
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Publicado: 17/2/2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
Publicado: 16/2/2021 -
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
Publicado: 15/2/2021 -
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
Publicado: 12/2/2021 -
A Ghanaian nurse's story
Publicado: 11/2/2021 -
The paper that helped the homeless
Publicado: 10/2/2021
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.
