Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1498 Episodo
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Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Publicado: 1/7/2020 -
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Publicado: 30/6/2020 -
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
Publicado: 29/6/2020 -
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
Publicado: 26/6/2020 -
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
Publicado: 25/6/2020 -
Tanzania's socialist experiment
Publicado: 24/6/2020 -
South Korea's economic miracle
Publicado: 23/6/2020 -
The New Deal
Publicado: 22/6/2020 -
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
Publicado: 19/6/2020 -
The friendship train
Publicado: 18/6/2020 -
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Publicado: 17/6/2020 -
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Publicado: 16/6/2020 -
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
Publicado: 15/6/2020 -
Three Strikes Law
Publicado: 12/6/2020 -
Rodney King and the LA riots
Publicado: 11/6/2020 -
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
Publicado: 10/6/2020 -
The 16th Street church bombing
Publicado: 9/6/2020 -
Brown v the Board of Education
Publicado: 8/6/2020 -
The portable defibrillator
Publicado: 5/6/2020 -
The origin of the WHO
Publicado: 4/6/2020
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.
