Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1497 Episodo
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The paper that helped the homeless
Publicado: 10/2/2021 -
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
Publicado: 9/2/2021 -
Francis Bacon in the archives
Publicado: 9/2/2021 -
DES Daughters
Publicado: 8/2/2021 -
General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
Publicado: 5/2/2021 -
Drugs in the Vietnam War
Publicado: 4/2/2021 -
The Burma uprising of 1988
Publicado: 3/2/2021 -
The Moscow State Circus
Publicado: 2/2/2021 -
The first Eurostar from England to France
Publicado: 1/2/2021 -
The anthem of the Arab Spring
Publicado: 29/1/2021 -
Libya's Arab uprising
Publicado: 28/1/2021 -
Yemen's 2011 uprising
Publicado: 27/1/2021 -
Syria in the Arab Spring
Publicado: 26/1/2021 -
Egypt's Facebook Girl
Publicado: 25/1/2021 -
Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs
Publicado: 22/1/2021 -
Kenya's pioneering publisher
Publicado: 21/1/2021 -
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
Publicado: 20/1/2021 -
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Publicado: 19/1/2021 -
Landing on Titan
Publicado: 14/1/2021 -
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Publicado: 13/1/2021
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.
