Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1498 Episodo
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Adrift for 76 days
Publicado: 29/7/2020 -
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
Publicado: 28/7/2020 -
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Publicado: 27/7/2020 -
The fastest vaccine ever developed
Publicado: 24/7/2020 -
The first safe house for Afghan women
Publicado: 23/7/2020 -
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
Publicado: 22/7/2020 -
The Million Man March
Publicado: 21/7/2020 -
The man who tried to kill Hitler
Publicado: 20/7/2020 -
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
Publicado: 17/7/2020 -
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Publicado: 16/7/2020 -
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
Publicado: 15/7/2020 -
How Club Med changed holidays
Publicado: 14/7/2020 -
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Publicado: 13/7/2020 -
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
Publicado: 10/7/2020 -
The death of Frida Kahlo
Publicado: 9/7/2020 -
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
Publicado: 8/7/2020 -
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Publicado: 7/7/2020 -
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
Publicado: 6/7/2020 -
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
Publicado: 3/7/2020 -
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Publicado: 2/7/2020
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.
