Witness History
Un pódcast de BBC World Service
1503 Episodo
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
Publicado: 25/10/2019 -
The Leipzig demonstrations
Publicado: 24/10/2019 -
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
Publicado: 23/10/2019 -
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
Publicado: 22/10/2019 -
The legalisation of Solidarity
Publicado: 21/10/2019 -
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Publicado: 18/10/2019 -
Britain's worst nuclear accident
Publicado: 17/10/2019 -
The man who fed the world
Publicado: 16/10/2019 -
Mexico City slashes car use
Publicado: 15/10/2019 -
Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
Publicado: 14/10/2019 -
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
Publicado: 11/10/2019 -
The Bristol bus boycott
Publicado: 10/10/2019 -
The Notting Hill riots
Publicado: 9/10/2019 -
The first black woman MP in Britain
Publicado: 8/10/2019 -
Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK
Publicado: 7/10/2019 -
China opens up to capitalism
Publicado: 4/10/2019 -
The 1967 Hong Kong riots
Publicado: 3/10/2019 -
Mao's Cultural Revolution
Publicado: 2/10/2019 -
My memories of Chairman Mao
Publicado: 1/10/2019 -
The birth of the People's Republic of China
Publicado: 30/9/2019
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.
