Witness History
Podcast tekijän mukaan BBC World Service
1472 Jaksot
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Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Julkaistiin: 4.7.2025 -
Back to the Future
Julkaistiin: 3.7.2025 -
Drill, baby, drill!
Julkaistiin: 2.7.2025 -
Cecil the lion
Julkaistiin: 1.7.2025 -
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Julkaistiin: 30.6.2025 -
Italian happiness trains
Julkaistiin: 27.6.2025 -
The opening of the Medellin Metro
Julkaistiin: 26.6.2025 -
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
Julkaistiin: 25.6.2025 -
The Czech Freedom Train
Julkaistiin: 24.6.2025 -
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Julkaistiin: 23.6.2025 -
Making Jaws
Julkaistiin: 20.6.2025 -
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Julkaistiin: 19.6.2025 -
Civil rights swim-in
Julkaistiin: 18.6.2025 -
Charleston church shooting
Julkaistiin: 17.6.2025 -
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
Julkaistiin: 16.6.2025 -
The Schengen Agreement
Julkaistiin: 13.6.2025 -
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Julkaistiin: 12.6.2025 -
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
Julkaistiin: 11.6.2025 -
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
Julkaistiin: 10.6.2025 -
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Julkaistiin: 9.6.2025
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.
