Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1497 Episodo
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The birth of Bangladesh
Publicado: 15/12/2020 -
White Christmas
Publicado: 14/12/2020 -
The return of the beaver
Publicado: 11/12/2020 -
Neanderthal cave mystery
Publicado: 10/12/2020 -
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Publicado: 9/12/2020 -
The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'
Publicado: 8/12/2020 -
The life and work of Chester Himes
Publicado: 7/12/2020 -
The V1 flying bomb
Publicado: 4/12/2020 -
The slaves who defeated Napoleon
Publicado: 2/12/2020 -
France's Muslim headscarf ban
Publicado: 2/12/2020 -
Iraq's pioneering feminist
Publicado: 1/12/2020 -
How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991
Publicado: 30/11/2020 -
The fight for disabled rights in the UK
Publicado: 27/11/2020 -
Rwanda at the Paralympics
Publicado: 26/11/2020 -
India's campaign for disability rights
Publicado: 25/11/2020 -
Britain's little blue disability car
Publicado: 24/11/2020 -
Helen Keller
Publicado: 23/11/2020 -
When the Egyptian president went to Israel
Publicado: 20/11/2020 -
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Publicado: 19/11/2020 -
America's WW2 refugee camp
Publicado: 18/11/2020
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.
