Witness History
En podcast av BBC World Service
1518 Avsnitt
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Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
Publicerades: 2024-11-27 -
The Iran-Contra Affair
Publicerades: 2024-11-26 -
Strictly Come Dancing
Publicerades: 2024-11-25 -
Creation of the UFC
Publicerades: 2024-11-22 -
Lord of the Flies
Publicerades: 2024-11-21 -
Handover of Macau
Publicerades: 2024-11-20 -
The Siege of Yarmouk
Publicerades: 2024-11-19 -
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Publicerades: 2024-11-18 -
German naturists
Publicerades: 2024-11-15 -
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
Publicerades: 2024-11-14 -
India's capsule coal mine rescue
Publicerades: 2024-11-13 -
How Greece got rid of their king
Publicerades: 2024-11-12 -
The Pakistan mountain massacre
Publicerades: 2024-11-11 -
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
Publicerades: 2024-11-08 -
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Publicerades: 2024-11-07 -
The Shah of Iran's party
Publicerades: 2024-11-06 -
In exile from Iran
Publicerades: 2024-11-05 -
Iran hostage crisis
Publicerades: 2024-11-04 -
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Publicerades: 2024-11-01 -
Brazil’s electronic voting
Publicerades: 2024-10-31
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.