Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1501 Episodo
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The best-seller Fear of Flying
Publicado: 13/2/2020 -
Diary of life in a favela
Publicado: 12/2/2020 -
The man who first published Harry Potter
Publicado: 11/2/2020 -
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
Publicado: 10/2/2020 -
The release of Nelson Mandela
Publicado: 7/2/2020 -
The Native American casino boom in the US
Publicado: 6/2/2020 -
Witnessing the birth of a new language
Publicado: 5/2/2020 -
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
Publicado: 4/2/2020 -
London's first black policeman
Publicado: 3/2/2020 -
The Treaty of Rome
Publicado: 31/1/2020 -
The first self-made female millionaire
Publicado: 30/1/2020 -
The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson
Publicado: 29/1/2020 -
Reforming India's rape laws
Publicado: 28/1/2020 -
The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family
Publicado: 27/1/2020 -
The frozen zoo
Publicado: 24/1/2020 -
The discovery of whalesong
Publicado: 23/1/2020 -
Silent Spring: A book that changed the world
Publicado: 22/1/2020 -
How the dodo died out
Publicado: 21/1/2020 -
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
Publicado: 20/1/2020 -
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Publicado: 17/1/2020
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.
