Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1498 Episodo
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Occupy Wall Street
Publicado: 26/8/2020 -
America's first woman combat pilot
Publicado: 25/8/2020 -
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Publicado: 24/8/2020 -
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Publicado: 21/8/2020 -
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
Publicado: 20/8/2020 -
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
Publicado: 20/8/2020 -
The first modern asthma inhaler
Publicado: 19/8/2020 -
The lost King of England
Publicado: 18/8/2020 -
Surviving Saddam
Publicado: 17/8/2020 -
The invention of the modern ventilator
Publicado: 14/8/2020 -
Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
Publicado: 13/8/2020 -
Beirut's Hotel War
Publicado: 12/8/2020 -
Bremen’s Elephant Statue
Publicado: 11/8/2020 -
Radar and World War Two
Publicado: 10/8/2020 -
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Publicado: 6/8/2020 -
The battle of Midway
Publicado: 5/8/2020 -
The internment of Japanese Americans
Publicado: 4/8/2020 -
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Publicado: 3/8/2020 -
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Publicado: 31/7/2020 -
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
Publicado: 30/7/2020
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.
