Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
Publicerades: 2025-06-06 -
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Publicerades: 2025-06-05 -
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publicerades: 2025-06-04 -
The world’s largest model train set
Publicerades: 2025-06-03 -
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Publicerades: 2025-06-02 -
The Battle of the Beanfield
Publicerades: 2025-05-30 -
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Publicerades: 2025-05-29 -
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Publicerades: 2025-05-28 -
The Tragically Hip's final gig
Publicerades: 2025-05-27 -
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Publicerades: 2025-05-26 -
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
Publicerades: 2025-05-23 -
The founding of Magnum Photos
Publicerades: 2025-05-22 -
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Publicerades: 2025-05-21 -
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Publicerades: 2025-05-20 -
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Publicerades: 2025-05-19 -
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Publicerades: 2025-05-16 -
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
Publicerades: 2025-05-15 -
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Publicerades: 2025-05-14 -
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Publicerades: 2025-05-13 -
Intervision Song Contest
Publicerades: 2025-05-12
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.