Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1497 Episodo
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Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
Publicado: 12/1/2021 -
When Spain's parliament was stormed
Publicado: 11/1/2021 -
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Publicado: 8/1/2021 -
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
Publicado: 7/1/2021 -
The 'strike' in space
Publicado: 6/1/2021 -
Buddhists and death row
Publicado: 5/1/2021 -
The oldest song in the world
Publicado: 4/1/2021 -
The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas
Publicado: 1/1/2021 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Publicado: 31/12/2020 -
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
Publicado: 30/12/2020 -
The building of the Aswan Dam
Publicado: 29/12/2020 -
UNESCO and race and tolerance
Publicado: 28/12/2020 -
It's a Wonderful Life
Publicado: 25/12/2020 -
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Publicado: 24/12/2020 -
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
Publicado: 23/12/2020 -
The Sound of Music
Publicado: 22/12/2020 -
The Great Dictator
Publicado: 21/12/2020 -
The GDR's Namibian children
Publicado: 18/12/2020 -
The blockade of Gibraltar
Publicado: 17/12/2020 -
British reality TV is born
Publicado: 16/12/2020
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.
