Witness History
Podcast tekijän mukaan BBC World Service
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Julkaistiin: 6.6.2025 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Julkaistiin: 5.6.2025 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Julkaistiin: 4.6.2025 -
The world’s largest model train set
Julkaistiin: 3.6.2025 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Julkaistiin: 2.6.2025 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Julkaistiin: 30.5.2025 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Julkaistiin: 29.5.2025 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Julkaistiin: 28.5.2025 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Julkaistiin: 27.5.2025 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Julkaistiin: 26.5.2025 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Julkaistiin: 23.5.2025 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Julkaistiin: 22.5.2025 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Julkaistiin: 21.5.2025 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Julkaistiin: 20.5.2025 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Julkaistiin: 19.5.2025 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Julkaistiin: 16.5.2025 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Julkaistiin: 15.5.2025 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Julkaistiin: 14.5.2025 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Julkaistiin: 13.5.2025 -
Intervision Song Contest
Julkaistiin: 12.5.2025
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.
