Witness History
Podcast tekijän mukaan BBC World Service
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1416 Jaksot
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The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
Julkaistiin: 28.10.2024 -
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Julkaistiin: 25.10.2024 -
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Julkaistiin: 24.10.2024 -
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
Julkaistiin: 23.10.2024 -
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
Julkaistiin: 22.10.2024 -
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Julkaistiin: 21.10.2024 -
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Julkaistiin: 18.10.2024 -
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Julkaistiin: 17.10.2024 -
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
Julkaistiin: 16.10.2024 -
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
Julkaistiin: 15.10.2024 -
The Sunflower Movement
Julkaistiin: 14.10.2024 -
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Julkaistiin: 11.10.2024 -
How the QR code was invented
Julkaistiin: 10.10.2024 -
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
Julkaistiin: 9.10.2024 -
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Julkaistiin: 8.10.2024 -
Eliza: When chatbots started
Julkaistiin: 7.10.2024 -
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
Julkaistiin: 4.10.2024 -
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
Julkaistiin: 3.10.2024 -
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Julkaistiin: 2.10.2024 -
Cambodia war crimes
Julkaistiin: 1.10.2024
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 football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic’ and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they’ve had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.
