Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1498 Episodo
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The death of Hitler
Publicado: 5/5/2020 -
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
Publicado: 4/5/2020 -
Hiroshima's trees of hope
Publicado: 1/5/2020 -
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
Publicado: 30/4/2020 -
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
Publicado: 29/4/2020 -
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
Publicado: 28/4/2020 -
Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia
Publicado: 27/4/2020 -
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
Publicado: 24/4/2020 -
The Brompton Manley Ventilator
Publicado: 23/4/2020 -
Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'
Publicado: 22/4/2020 -
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Publicado: 21/4/2020 -
The Deepwater Horizon disaster
Publicado: 20/4/2020 -
Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
Publicado: 17/4/2020 -
A space crash
Publicado: 17/4/2020 -
When Skylab fell to Earth
Publicado: 16/4/2020 -
The last men on the Moon
Publicado: 15/4/2020 -
The first iPhone
Publicado: 14/4/2020 -
Nasa's female aquanauts
Publicado: 14/4/2020 -
The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
Publicado: 10/4/2020 -
Six Degrees: The first online social network
Publicado: 8/4/2020
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.
