Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1503 Episodo
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Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter
Publicado: 22/11/2019 -
The man who got Delhi on track
Publicado: 21/11/2019 -
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
Publicado: 20/11/2019 -
The 'Woman in Gold'
Publicado: 19/11/2019 -
The first Tasers
Publicado: 18/11/2019 -
The first Indian to win Miss World
Publicado: 15/11/2019 -
The Love Canal disaster
Publicado: 14/11/2019 -
The demolition of the Babri Masjid
Publicado: 13/11/2019 -
Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail
Publicado: 12/11/2019 -
Memories of Wilfred Owen
Publicado: 11/11/2019 -
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall
Publicado: 8/11/2019 -
The Bhagalpur blindings
Publicado: 7/11/2019 -
Britain's secret propaganda war
Publicado: 6/11/2019 -
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Publicado: 5/11/2019 -
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Publicado: 4/11/2019 -
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
Publicado: 1/11/2019 -
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
Publicado: 31/10/2019 -
The Algerians who fought with France
Publicado: 30/10/2019 -
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Publicado: 29/10/2019 -
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
Publicado: 28/10/2019
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.
