Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1497 Episodo
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The world's first woman premier
Publicado: 17/11/2020 -
Captured by Somali pirates
Publicado: 16/11/2020 -
The 'good enough' mother
Publicado: 13/11/2020 -
When Pluto lost its planet status
Publicado: 12/11/2020 -
World War One in Africa
Publicado: 11/11/2020 -
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
Publicado: 10/11/2020 -
The Guerrilla Girls
Publicado: 9/11/2020 -
The church that rose from the rubble
Publicado: 6/11/2020 -
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
Publicado: 5/11/2020 -
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Publicado: 4/11/2020 -
'I just wanted to be white'
Publicado: 3/11/2020 -
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
Publicado: 2/11/2020 -
With the president on 9/11
Publicado: 30/10/2020 -
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Publicado: 29/10/2020 -
The Watergate scandal
Publicado: 28/10/2020 -
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
Publicado: 27/10/2020 -
When JFK won the US presidency
Publicado: 26/10/2020 -
Nasa's pioneering black women
Publicado: 23/10/2020 -
The missing victims of apartheid
Publicado: 22/10/2020 -
The Cutter Incident
Publicado: 21/10/2020
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.
